Tight budgets can lead to 'safe' programmes. Daniel Evans of Sheffield Theatres and Elizabeth Newman at the Octagon in Bolton have the right approach"Audiences crave a challenge," said Daniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, writing about the audience's enthusiastic response to the Crucible's Sarah Kane season in a recent piece for the Stage. The theatre had been prepared for audiences to stay away; in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AM on May 12, 2015