Kate Dorney is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is editor of the journal Studies in Theatre & Performance and the author of The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945-2005. In January 2010 she joined the Arts Council England’s panel of Artistic Assessors.Ros Merkin is a Reader in Drama at Liverpool John Moores University. Her publications include Liverpool’s Third Cathedral: the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, and she is currently working on a book for the 100th anniversary of Liverpool Playhouse in 2011 and one on the contribution of regional theatre to the theatre ecology.