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INTERVIEW: AMIR NIZAR ZUABI The director and writer, whose Haifa-based Palestinian ShiberHur theatre company is currently performing an adaptation of Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony at the Young Vic, talks to Amardeep Sohi about the play, the question of freedom and why he does not accept subsidy from the Israeli state.

INTERVIEW: ROGER REES The Welsh actor, who has made his return to the London stage as Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Haymarket) opposite Ian McKellen's Estragon, talks about the role, his days at the RSC and his more recent work. Dominic Cavendish quizzes.

FOCUS ON KANE Graham Saunders of Reading University talks to Aleks Sierz about his latest book, About Kane: The Playwright and the Work (Faber), which examines the output of Sarah Kane in the context of 1990s British theatre, and of her growing reputation.

INTERVIEW: JAMES MACDONALD (2/2) The director talks to Aleks Sierz about Sarah Kane's posthumous 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Court) and about his recent production of Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough To Say I Love You. Excerpt.

INTERVIEW: JAMES MACDONALD (1/2) The director talks to Aleks Sierz about Peter Handke's 1992 classic The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National), a 100-minute play in which not a word is spoken.

REPUTATIONS: SARAH KANE Cleansed post-show discussion with directors Dominic Dromgoole and Sean Holmes, brother Simon Kane and academic Graham Saunders. Aleks Sierz hosts at the Arcola Theatre. Recorded live. Excerpt.

HAPPY DAYS Felicity Kendal braves Beckett, as revived by Peter Hall. Dominic Cavendish, Patrick Marmion and Charles Spencer tend to disagree. Rachel Halliburton hosts.