“Theatre Royal Stratford East is to give audiences a free rein to choose its programme for the first six months of 2012, in the run up to the London Olympics. The move, which is thought to be the first time a major producing theatre has given the general public an open say about what is put on its stage for an entire season, is seen by officials at TRSE as an extension of the company’s long tradition … of being a ‘theatre of the people’.”