All Aboard the Tramway Sarah Munro Is Driving the Glasgow Arts Venue Forward... And There's Room for Everybody On the Journey, She Tells Moira Jeffrey

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IT'S A convention, when interviewing someone who has just started a new job in the arts, to describe their office. The pictures on the wall and the trifles on their desk are meant to give your audience a clue to their personality and tastes. With Sarah Munro, who has just taken the helm at Glasgow's Tramway, she's not just new to the office, but the office itself is new, perched behind a stunning arched window in what used to be the balcony above Tramway's exhibition space.

There are only empty shelves and the smell of new carpets, so instead we look out at the view across Albert Drive to the builder's merchant opposite. "I think it's affecting me," jokes Munro. "I find myself talking to the staff using phrases like 'building blocks'. We were having a chat the other day about the idea of standards, and I said: 'Let's just talk about it like it's grouting.' "

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All Aboard the Tramway Sarah Munro Is Driving the Glasgow Arts Venue Forward... And There's Room for Everybody On the Journey, She Tells Moira Jeffrey

Grouting metaphors are good enough for me. Tramway is Scotland's most iconic arts space, pioneering what is now the urban commonplace of transforming a historic or industrial building. The former tram depot was reborn as a performance venue to host Peter Brook's Mahabharata in 1988. The theatre space has echoed to some of the finest performers on the pl...

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