I cannot feel the same in our theatres.
But 20 years ago, you couldn't move for thrillers in provincial theatres: always set in country houses or smart London flats, always starring an actor off the TV in neckerchief and fawn slacks (Gerald Harper or Jack Hedley or Bill Simpson), always featuring a drinks trolley, an attractive fiance, a best friend and a stalwart detective who appears after the interval to investigate the crime.
One thing that seems probable, if this turn is to be given to dramatic enterprise, is that we shall soon have Ministerial and Opposition theatres as well as newspapers.
As austerity sweeps Europe, artistic and cultural institutions have been among the first to face cuts, with theatres, opera houses, orchestras, galleries and educational programmes all facing existential threats as their budgets and public subsidies are slashed.
In recent years archaeologists working nearby have uncovered the remains of two key theatres linked to Shakespeare's early career, The Curtain and The Theatre.
The US ratings authority was satisfied that malleable young minds would be adequately protected from the vagaries of the English language – the same authority by the way that is happy to allow malleable young minds to watch PG-13 rated movies about torture and gore each week – and the movie opened in 1,011 theatres.
Challenging theatres to increase their appeal to a wider range of social groups, he said: "It's great to have a £10 a ticket system, but if all the £10 tickets are being sold to people who were buying them for £50 the week before, then that's no great gain.
This great St Petersburg company is stretching itself across a hectic work schedule, both in its two home theatres and on foreign tours, yet its quality can still be unparalleled.
As a result, from the start of 2013, countless theatres, museums and orchestras will see their funding either severely curtailed or, like the Internationaal Danstheater, cut off altogether.
Project manager Maria Magdelena Ludwig is overseeing all the performances from theatres in Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, India, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK.
Career: Plays include Fucked, first performed at the Old Red Lion, London, in 2008; Eigengrau for the Bush in 2010; The Village Bike, seen at the Royal Court in 2011, and now playing at Sheffield theatres; and The Sound of Heavy Rain.
