Michael Billington goes on a quest to find the best place to put on a play

Guardian Unlimited Arts: "What makes a good theatre? Can the present learn from the past? Are we even entering an era when theatre buildings will become obsolete and be replaced by 'found' spaces? All these questions are prompted by two events. A sneak preview of the restored Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, which reopens next Tuesday. Also, a stimulating encounter with Iain Mackintosh: an independent theatre consultant and a man with a radical vision of what the future might hold."