Shouts and Murmurs - January 30, 2024

Industry leaders anonymously air their grievances about the Arts Council, the RSC's new artistic directors look ahead, and it turns out Plaza Suite is not worth selling a kidney to see.

Hello, and welcome to Shouts And Murmurs, a weekly email for paid supporters of The Crush Bar, written by me, Fergus Morgan.

Every week, I round up the best - and worst - theatre writing elsewhere, from reviews, to interviews, to features, to opinions, as well as any other fun or interesting theatre-related stuff I come across. It will mostly be UK-based, but I’ll keep an eye on international stuff, too.

This week, there is: a look at the latest development in the ongoing conversation about our broken public funding model for the arts; some interviews worth reading with RSC chiefs Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans, playwright Zoe Cooper, actor Dominic West and others, a few other articles worth reading, another Substack worth subcribing to, and more.