Subsidised theatre battlefields and taking a Trojan horse into Downing Street

Shenton's View - The Stage: After the Nick Hytner/Danny Boyle press conference on the continuing threats to English regional theatre subsidy, which I blogged about last week, battlegrounds are forming everywhere. Last Tuesday the BBC arts correspondent Will Gompertz’s suggested publicly on Radio 4′s Today Programme that funding for the arts had been “it would appear, to no great effect”.