Wave of protest plays staged as UK theatres face closures and staff shortages

In several new productions, playwrights explore the cost of living crisis as their industry reels from funding cuts, cancellations and low wages 'What galvanises me to get up in the morning and write is what is making me angry, upsetting me, frightening me," says playwright Emily White. Like her previous plays, White's next production, Joseph K and the Cost of Living, opening at Swansea Grand next month, seeks to make the political personal. It is a reimagining of Kafka's nightmarish The Trial, ...