The 2008 LTG conference and AGM

conference theme - mind the gap

The conference was based around the theme Mind The Gap and explored through the workshops the increasingly ‘Little Gap’ between professional and amateur theatre. The 'gap' operates on many levels: legislation which affects us all; actors, directors and technicians working on both levels (many of whom are enthused in their youth by Guild member theatres and also trained by them). Then there are the plays premiered in the West End which seemingly disappear, but are championed by amateur theatres countrywide and subsequently re-appear.

the conference closing

At the conference closing, in response to a question fromJo Matthews delegates agreed that the gap was not only closing but was virtually non-existant.