Programming Barrie, Coward or Du Maurier is understandable when times are tough. But if regional theatre wants to safeguard its future, it must look beyond plays of the pastA couple of years back, in a passionate post on this blog about regional theatre, the Royal and Derngate's artistic director Laurie Sansom observed that "Regional artistic directors used to behave as if they were on Countdown: 'I'll have a Coward,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AM on March 22, 2011