The first-season choices of James Dacre, artistic director of Northampton's Royal & Derngate theatres, embody the possibilities and challenges of drawing local theatregoersRunning one of Britain's regional playhouses, a theatre director once told me, was a combination of "comedy on stage, tragedy off". And his description of enduring bureaucratic and funding crises in order to serve audiences who seem only to want li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM on December 9, 2013