Is it possible to be ambitious in the current climate?

Arts Council is always looking to fund ambitious, audacious, out of the box work - if it’s of high artistic quality. I think it’s important to keep optimistic and believe that there is always funding for truly ambitious and innovative work. In fact, the current climate makes us go back to basics - good storytelling, good writing, minimal but effective staging - a kind of less is more approach. Even script in hand readings of work with nothing on stage except (good) actors, in good direction, can be ambitious in its scope and quality. The epic and the universal is alive and well, it just needs to be tapped into. Ambition is just a mind-set: it’s doesn’t have to be sumptuous or extravagent. It can be small, and perfectly formed.