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The notion of planned obsolescence is common in industrial design and manufacturing; not so in the arts, where few organisations ever consider that they and their work might have a use-by date.
Brett Sheehy, the current Artistic Director of Melbourne Theatre Company and former Artistic Director of Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney Festivals, says the issue has not once been raised at any of the organisations he has worked for.
