Theatres must look beyond their regular audiences and to society itself
It's time for theatres to ask some hard questions about their impact on people who have never even seen one of their showsSome years ago I left the National Theatre having seen Fiona Shaw in Brecht's The Good Person of Sichuan. I was in a stream of people heading to Waterloo Station and we all passed two young homeless lads asking for money. Despite what we had just watched on stage, not a single one of us stopped an…