Venue magazine will be officially no more by the end of the year with the closure of venue.co.uk.
Its online home is the last presence of the once mighty Bristol and Bath publication, but this week the two journalists who run the website have both been told by owners Local World that their services are no longer required.
There is life after Venue, however, as the last editor of the magazine before it was unceremoniously scrapped can testify.
Tom Wainwright spent most of this summer balancing sheep on his head performing in The Boy Who Cried Wolf outside Bristol Old Vic.
This week, his first radio drama, The Wainwrights, was performed on Radio 4.
The comedy about radio overlapping with real life was received rapturously by the Daily Telegraph’s radio critic Gillian Reynolds.
“The characters were strong enough to like yet to laugh at. The script was packed with plot twists and sharp, funny lines. The casting was excellent and Sasha Yevtushenko’s staging of the fiendish final battle was simultaneously convincing and comic. If only The Archers were as good as this nowadays.”
