Category Archives: Interview

Eggs by Florence Keith-Roach: interview

Posted on March 14, 2016 by 17Percent

17Percent recently interviewed Florence ahead of seeing her new play Eggs performed at the London Vaults, as part of the Vault festival. This unsuspecting venue, which used to be the Old Vic tunnels tucked next to/below Waterloo station, has been transformed for a … Continue reading →

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Silva Semerciyan interview: ‘The Magic Hour’

Posted on June 7, 2015 by 17Percent

Interview with playwright Silva Semerciyan whose new play opens at Theatre503 on 9 June. Continue reading →

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Heather Jeffery Q and A

Posted on April 27, 2015 by 17Percent

Heather Jeffery’s play FACE TO FACE is at the Drayton Arms Theatre from tomorrow. We asked her some questions about writing… Continue reading →

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A thousand plays for Shakespeare

Posted on March 31, 2015 by 17Percent

Annie Jenkins is a 24-year-old playwright from Tottenham, North London. For the Shakespeare in Shoreditch Festival 2014, she was locked in a shed for 10 days by immersive theatre-makers RIFT. During that time she was challenged to accumulate 1,000 original plays. Continue reading →

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WINK: Click, Scroll, Accept Request…

Posted on March 30, 2015 by 17Percent

Joanna Lally talks to Phoebe Eclair-Powell about WINK, her first play, currently on at Theatre503. Continue reading →

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Helen Benedict’s play about women in war gets first UK outing

Posted on March 3, 2015 by 17Percent

Hannah Roe interviews Helen Benedict, award-winning journalist, novelist and writer of The Lonely Soldier Monologues, coming to the Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, in May. Continue reading →

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Lucy Kerbel interview

Posted on January 20, 2015 by 17Percent

Interview with Lucy Kerbel. Continue reading →

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Karis Halsall interview

Posted on January 12, 2015 by 17Percent

Interview with Karis Halsall, performance poet, playwright and Literary Associate at Theatre503. Continue reading →

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Passionate, poetic, political playwright: interview with Sarah Hehir

Posted on November 19, 2014 by 17Percent

Sarah Hehir is a Medway based poet and playwright whose first radio play, Bang Up, won the BBC Writers Prize in 2013. For the past two years she has collaborated with Sam Hall, 17Percent’s founder, to write short plays which … Continue reading →

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks about Fleabag and writing

Posted on May 20, 2014 by 17Percent

Interview with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, about writing and her award-winning play ‘Fleabag’. Continue reading →

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