Last month’s Birmingham Rep Sikh protests proved that theatre still matters. But what to do with that energy? “New writing in British theatre seems at a real crossroads, facing a choice between bite-sized, narrative-dominated star vehicles or a renewal of the kind of large-scale statement that is thought to have perished under Mrs Thatcher’s tank tracks but has clearly re-emerged in the past 12 months. The re-creation of a culture of large-scale new writing in British theatre won’t just happen – without Monsterism, minimalism will triumph.”