Why do modern actors and directors love classics?

Well admittedly not many plays are going to compete with Hamlet and Dons Party, (certainly Williamson himself is struggling in later years to compete with his own earlier product)

But...

does the habit of producing classics over new texts mean that we are not giving any writers a chance to develop their skills to the level when they can write plays which could one day be classics?


cheers

Dave Ryding