How theatres can make everyone fight for the arts

Originally Posted by Lyn Gardner Tuesday 7 May 2013 11.48 EDT guardian.co.uk Local theatres must engage with their communities through education and participatory initiatives, thereby creating an army of advocates governments can’t ignore Is the conversation around arts funding becoming more grown up? There are signs that it is, and it couldn’t come at a … More How theatres can make everyone fight for the arts

Stop and look around

Ajax in Iraq tells the parallel stories of the eponymous Greek hero of Sophocles’ tragedy Ajax and a young female soldier in Iraq named AJ. Ajax, gripped by jealousy and anger and driven mad by the goddess Athena, slaughters a herd of livestock in a violent rage. Meanwhile, in contemporary Iraq, AJ experiences horrors that … More Stop and look around