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Artistic Director of Gecko, Amit Lahav, is concise and doesn’t beat around the bush; it feels only polite for Run Riot to reciprocate. Here goes – straight to the point.

Thespians know David Rosenberg as a founding artist of Shunt and a theatre director who indulges in experimentation; Run Riot regulars will also be familiar with his untraditional approach to interviews, which are always blissfully blurb free and intrigue heavy.

A little over 3 years ago Nick Giles left Donmar Warehouse to become Director of Shoreditch Town Hall. His pitch to the venue’s board was simple and ambitious - inject the architectural gem with an artistic programme to match: “Saving the building was not enough – we needed to give it a life, and audiences and our local community compelling reasons to come through our doors.”

Images: Elvira Santamaría Torres and Manuel Vason, Double Exposures, Belfast, 2013.

Remember 1966? All the sudden U-turns and slow-cooked changes in the arts world since then?

A successful stage and screen career well under his belt, actor Jason Morell temporarily stepped behind the metaphorical curtain to devote himself to a different kind of endeavour: a celebration of Dylan Thomas, one hundred years after his birth. The result is Dylan Thomas in Fitzrovia, a week-long festival taking over the neighbourhood where the poet “drank, lived and loved” and transforming it into London’s central spot for all things Thomas.