RSC in financial trouble
- Title
- RSC in financial trouble
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 9 Feb 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:04:50
- Description
- Camilla Affleck reports on the closure of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s two London theatres for four months to save £1.3million out of a deficit of £2.9million.The RSC’s artistic director Terry Hands says the alternative is total closure, whilst Arts Council director Iain Reid claims their hands are tied; Labour’s Shadow Arts Minister Mark Fisher says Arts Minister Richard Luce shouldn’t wash his hands of the problem.
- Contributors
- Mark Fisher; Camilla Affleck; Terry Hands; Iain Reid
- Keywords
- Theatre; Grants; Finance; Arts Council; Royal Shakespeare Company; Richard Luce
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