Planning and programming a subscription season for a state theatre company is a complicated jigsaw of ideas, artists’ availability, potential play scripts and production partners – which makes the speed with which Mitchell Butel assembled his first program as Artistic Director for the State Theatre Company South Australia (STCSA) all the more impressive.
Told he’d got the job last December, while working in London on Windmill’s touring production Rumpelstiltskin, Butel said he began thinking about programming almost immediately.
