National Theatre Director Rufus Norris says the government’s levelling up scheme will have the opposite effect on regional touring. Dalya Alberge reports.
The director of the National Theatre in London is warning that the government’s levelling-up agenda will take its toll on its touring productions and schools programmes beyond the capital.
Rufus Norris said that the decision by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in February “to redistribute Arts Council England (ACE) funding and level up access to the arts” across the country would be detrimental to the National Theatre’s work.
Norris told the Guardian: “Cutting us back because of where our postcode is will have a direct and negative effect on the nationwide work that this move is designed to address. It will have the exact opposite effect of their stated intention”...Keep reading on The Guardian.
The director of the National Theatre in London is warning that the government’s levelling-up agenda will take its toll on its touring productions and schools programmes beyond the capital.
Rufus Norris said that the decision by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in February “to redistribute Arts Council England (ACE) funding and level up access to the arts” across the country would be detrimental to the National Theatre’s work.
Norris told the Guardian: “Cutting us back because of where our postcode is will have a direct and negative effect on the nationwide work that this move is designed to address. It will have the exact opposite effect of their stated intention”...Keep reading on The Guardian.