Equity to fight "stuffy, ineffective" image

The Stage: Equity has agreed to engage with its critics after warnings that the union is seen as “stuffy, ineffective, disconnected, impotent” by some parts of the industry. The West End Deputies’ Committee, who put forward a motion addressing this criticism at the annual representative conference in Birmingham, said that the hostility derived partly from “perceived weaknesses” of the union’s dealings with the Society of London Theatre.