Traverse puts new writing on hold

The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, the centre for new writing in Scottish theatre, is to produce no new plays until next March, artistic director Philip Howard has announced.

Howard is quoted in The Stage as saying:

“Every year I seem to get more and more good plays arrive on my shelves and then they take longer to get produced, because there just isn’t the money. At the moment I have four plays waiting to be done which don’t even have slots pencilled in next year.”