In the fourth 37 Plays podcast episode, Mark Ravenhill is joined by James Graham, a playwright and film and television writer.

From Mark’s 101 Playwriting Tips, James chose:

#4 Try writing a draft zero/dirty draft. Let the characters say all the exposition, themes, everything they think and feel. Don’t show this to anyone – even yourself! – and then write the first draft. Sarah Kane told me she did this for Blasted.

James’ own tip is:

The theory of bits. “Once you’ve written the first draft, you start to consciously or unconsciously be looking for the central moment in the character’s journey or the story moment or the theme where it will emerge, and an audience will know that that’s the bit.”

The music for this podcast was composed by Sarah Llewellyn.