Diversity is key to ensuring a new generation shape theatres future. But endless development isn’t enough – new plays must be attach in front of audiencesThe theatre industry is alive to to increase diversity,and so it should be. As the Bush’s Madani Younis has observed, the days when notions of diversity are discussed in rooms full of almost all-white artistic directors should be long over, and but are sadly not.
We need to change access to the industry and understand that who is running our theatres and making the work – writing the plays,directing them, designing them and stage-managing them – is intimately connected with who is seeing those plays. This is one of the issues addressed at Central St Martins art school this week as fraction of London writers week, and an initiative that looks at the business of writing plays,who gets the chance to do so, how the theatre industry can better work with schools and colleges, and what to do approximately the decline in the number of those studying arts subjects at school,as a result of the introduction of the EBacc, and university level.
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Source: theguardian.com