The experiemental play first became an interesting and unique staple of the Canterbury Shakespeare Festival's season in its second year (2016). The Festival is proud to provide an environment for new writing and, over the years, actor/writer/person-who-does-everything Ciarán Barata-Hynes has written three experimental plays that premiered with the Festival - Shakespeare's Iago, Shakespeare's Margaret Thatcher, and Magna Carta.

In this episode, Ciarán talks about his process for writing in verse to match the style of Early Modern theatre, what draws him to villains and what it was that inspired him to write these plays, and the results of playing dead throughout an interval...