Andy Arnold’s daughter recently brought him up short. Working in Formula One racing, she commented that you don’t want to finish a race stuck behind the safety car. It made Arnold think about his own role as artistic director of Glasgow’s Tron Theatre.”I thought is this a metaphor for me?” he laughs. “Will my last few years in the theatre be stuck behind the safety car, with socially distanced performances and all the rest of it?”
Not likely. In the last two years of pandemic, he has done all he can to keep artistic activity going. Work has included High Man Pen Meander, an excellent online celebration of Edwin Morgan’s poetry filmed in the theatre’s spookily empty corridors, and a post-lockdown staging of The Tempest, with an all-female company, many of whom were doing their first professional job. [READ MORE]