Theatres should be the new town squares, not monasteries by Lyn Gardner

Regional theatres will thrive when they are democratic open spaces, where communities gather to share ideas about the lives they lead and aspire to"Money's nice, but connections and conversations are better," says Julia Negus, co-founder of Shopfront theatre, which is in an old fish and chip shop in City Arcade, Coventry. "We all know that theatre can happen everywhere, but Shopfront made us realise that often it doe…

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