The winners of this year's Regional Theatre Young Directors bursaries are Alice Bartlett who will have a year's placement at the Derby Playhouse and Hannah Chissick who will work at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Both bursaries are worth £10,000.
Kaos Theatre could close before the end of the year because of financial shortages after South West Arts awarded it £13,000 rather than the £60,000 it had asked for. Thye company received an A4E grant of £90,000 from the Arts Council last year to enable it to play in medium rather than small-scale venues. The A4E grant allowed to the company to pay its company of ten Equity minimum, and so now operating costs have risen to £5000 a month.