Max Stafford-Clark: 'We've played to the worst houses we've ever had'
With cuts in funding, safer programming, shrinking audiences, new writing is the first casualty in this vicious circle. The Out of Joint founder says something has to changeMax Stafford-Clark opens his notebook. It's a durable blue jotter filled with 20 years of Out of Joint records, all copied out by hand: writers' royalties, touring schedules, weekly audience numbers. Right now, it doesn't make for happy reading."C…