London’s Bush Theatre’s New Literary Policy: No Need To Submit A Script

“Artistic director Madani Younis hopes to widen the scope of new writing. ‘We’re introducing a strand where artists and writer-performers can engage with us without just submitting a script,’ he explains. ‘Speaking to artists, they’ve said, ‘Don’t expect to read our stuff on a page.’ You need to meet them. You need to give them a different kind of space.'”

Trevor Nunn Stages Beckett Radio Play On West End – As Radio Play

“The actors carry scripts; props and gestures are kept to a minimum; and there are microphones hanging from the ceiling to simulate a 1950s studio. Nunn calls it a ‘visualised radio play’, and the conceit is that the audience are eavesdroppers at a studio recording.” (Why not just act it out on stage? The Beckett estate, of course.)

Turmoil And Huge Deficits At Calgary’s Largest Museum

“Glenbow Museum president and CEO Kirstin Evenden resigned Tuesday after 19 years with the organization.” (Two other senior staffers resigned in September.) “Although attendance is up, the museum has run deficits at more than $1 million for the last three years. A well-known historian describes the Calgary institution as operating in survival mode.”

A Winnipeg Bridge Transformed Into Public Art

From Here Until Now, by Winnipeg-based architect-artists Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski, makes the massive Osborne Street bridge into a surprisingly delicate concrete-and-aluminium poem. … The end result isn’t an immense, attention-grabbing monument but a slow, quiet, interactive experience, something that will sneak up on you gradually as you bike, walk or drive by.”