“The writer-director partnership can be crucial to the success of a new play. A tried-and-tested classic will survive the attentions of an inept director, but a virgin text, mishandled, might never see the light of day again. A good writer-director mix can, on the other hand, produce a magical result that is somehow more than the sum of its components.” A new theatre festival in Suffolk, England, aims to match writers and directors at the earliest possible stage of a new play’s development.