Will a lack of funding push Barrie Rutter to stand down from Northern Broadsides? He tells all to Dominic Cavendish.
Barrie Rutter is the last of the great northern theatrical chieftains. A decade ago, Alan Ayckbourn reigned in Scarborough, John Godber ran Hull Truck, and Rutter was ensconced at Halifax, with his touring company, Northern Broadsides. The first two have stepped down; only Rutter remains in post.
As it approaches its 25th anniversary year, though, how much longer will Northern Broadsides, based in the atmospheric Viaduct Theatre, in the bowels of a vast former mill building, continue? It was founded in a spirit of geographical and social defiance: a two-fingered salute to the Oxbridge hegemony. Back in 1992, the Hull-born actor demanded “Northern voices, doing classical work in non-velvet spaces… I don’t care if somebody hates it – they’ll get both barrels... Keep reading on The Telegraph
Barrie Rutter is the last of the great northern theatrical chieftains. A decade ago, Alan Ayckbourn reigned in Scarborough, John Godber ran Hull Truck, and Rutter was ensconced at Halifax, with his touring company, Northern Broadsides. The first two have stepped down; only Rutter remains in post.
As it approaches its 25th anniversary year, though, how much longer will Northern Broadsides, based in the atmospheric Viaduct Theatre, in the bowels of a vast former mill building, continue? It was founded in a spirit of geographical and social defiance: a two-fingered salute to the Oxbridge hegemony. Back in 1992, the Hull-born actor demanded “Northern voices, doing classical work in non-velvet spaces… I don’t care if somebody hates it – they’ll get both barrels... Keep reading on The Telegraph