Various obvious problems leap out. Pass the salt. The amount of theatrical activity in Wales may be already out of all proportion to the population - but nearly half the population of Wales do go to the theatre at least once a year. The Bogdanov campaign is wrong when it claims that theatre has failed to find an audience in Wales - it's just that the optimum audience is relatively small. The latest Great National Theatre Debate comes, ironically, as theatre in England is in a parlous state.
English theatre looks sick.
Theatre in Wales is, by comparison, very healthy. The day after Michael Bogdanov 's Guardian article, for example, I listened to Powys-based playwright Greg Cullen's poetic, political, marvellous Tower, produced in Cardiff, broadcast on Radio 4. That week Swansea-based Volcano Theatre's deconstruction of Ibsen, How To Live, was at Waterman's in London. Made in Wales was staging its eight-week Trouble and Desire festival of new writing at The Point in Cardiff Bay. Ed Thomas 's startling, brilliantly-made exploration of an imagined Wales, Song for a Forgotten City, for Y Cwmni, was touring to Aberystwyth and Builth Wells before going to The Royal Court.