Stephen Carruthers interviews Joe Douglas (Associate Artistic Director, Dundee Rep)

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/RTcnNd5VP2o” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] (This is a lightly edited transcript of the interview; to view the whole interview, please click image above) Stephen Carruthers: Good Afternoon. I’m Stephen Carruthers from the Dundee University Review of the Arts and I’m here with Joe Douglas, the Associate Artistic Director of Dundee Rep Theatre. Joe Douglas: Read More

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