Short plays: the key to dramatic perfection?
Festivals such as Cambridge's Hotbed offer the ideal setting for the unfairly underrated dramatic fragmentLiving in Cambridge has many advantages (architecture, libraries, punting), but access to contemporary playwriting is not one of them. But this week spring has arrived early with the advent of Hotbed, a festival of new plays produced by Menagerie Theatre. The theatrical equivalent of a three-day bender, Hotbed is…