BBC News: Earlier this month, the National Theatre's artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner warned that regional theatres in the UK would face "clear and present danger" if hit with more funding cuts. Is he right?
On Sunday, the Theatre Awards UK honoured the cream of regional theatre, with nominees picked from all corners of the country, from the Belfast Lyric to the Hull Truck, the Chichester Festival Theatre to the Dundee Rep.
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I wonder sometimes if seeing the quality of work at a particular theatre company drop off because of a significant lose of funding isn't exactly what we want to show our patrons. We've all seen flyers and program inserts saying [what are now] cliches of, "We can't do it without you!" and the like but I sometimes wonder if the vast majority of audience members are immune to those kinds of appeals and shrug them off before they even register.
Perhaps if theatre companies reduced their seasons by removing a show, or by doing shows with smaller casts, or with smaller sets or some other means more audience members would see in what dire straits Theatre in general was and by what a thin thread the Arts hang by as it is that they'd become more involved and donate more time, money, or resources.
Or perhaps more audience members would just shrug off the reduced shows and casts and quality as not their fault at all and stop coming at all, which would simply worsen the problem and maybe put the company out of business altogether.
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