N is for national theatres
The dream of a national theatre has happily come to pass, not only in England but in Wales and Scotland, too. But is regional theatre under threat as a result?I was very struck by something I came across last week. Reading about the pioneering playwright and director, Harley Granville Barker, I found this in a biography by CB Purdom written in 1955: "What wrecked his life was the indifference to the need for a n…