British Theatre Repertoire 2014

As a result of the success of the 2013 British Theatre Repertoire report, BTC conducted a similar report on 2014, again as a collaboration with UKT/SOLT and with ACE support. 

The main headline was that the breakdown of new and old work remained roughly the same (so 2013 wasn’t an aberration). Although new plays represented over half of all straight shows produced, devised theatre had increased as a proportion of the repertoire. The proportion of new plays written by women remained at 31% of all plays produced. The 2014 report explored some aspects of the repertoire in more detailed (for example, the gender breakdown of authorship of revivals).

 The report was launched in the opening plenary of the conference Theatre 2016 (held in London in May) and was the front page lead in The Stage.