Two weeks after Declan Greene took up the position of Artistic Director of Griffin Theatre Company, the theatre was closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“I came here, I got to see a couple of performances of [David Williamson’s new play] Family Values and then we shut the doors to the Stables and the theatre has been closed ever since then. I get quite emotional actually every time I come into this space,” says Greene, chatting to Limelight in the Stables foyer.

Declan Greene. Photograph © Brett Boardman

“In my mind, I already knew the season I wanted to program when I came into the job so I had to have a period of adjustment and say actually a lot of what I wanted to do won’t work in this world. So, very quickly we had to get onto what we would do instead and within weeks I was equally excited and equally pumped to be putting this season together.”

Like every other arts organisation dealing with the changes wrought by COVID, Greene says he has planned “around...