Creative realities

This week on CW, guest blogger John Boyden, former managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra and re-founder of the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, puts the musical case against state subsidies for orchestras. Sarah Boyes considers the relationship between writing and editing in a review of Raymond Carver’s Beginners, while Sharmini Brookes reports from a Johannesburg talk by South African crime writer Deon Meyer, on the writer’s craft.

Meanwhile in London theatre, Miriam Gillinson reviews Jumpy and Bang bang bang at the Royal Court and Saved at the Lyric, while Matt Trueman reviews Sixty-Six Books at the Bush Theatre. And Diana Damian reports from the KRT Festival in Krakow, Poland.

21 October 2011