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Dateline: 20th October, 2010
"A Big Blow to Theatres" - Boyd Responding to today’s announcement of a 29.6% cut in Arts Council England’s budget, Michael Boyd, the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, said, "Any cut is hard to take and 29.6% will hit the arts and audiences hard. We understand that cuts in Arts Council England funding to regularly funded organisations may be 15% over 4 years. This will be a big blow to theatres - especially those who will also be losing local authority funding - and audiences will be the poorer. We are concerned that the settlement for the Arts Council doesn’t allow it sufficient room to manoeuvre. We know cuts are likely to be front-loaded next year, but we hope they can be applied so as to allow time to plan for the future, reduce costs efficiently and find new sources of funding.
"[At the RSC] We are pursuing ways to cut our costs and maximise our income, and will do what we can to support smaller organisations by continuing our collaborations with other artists, professional and amateur companies and drama schools.
"We will wait to hear more detail following the Arts Council’s national meeting on 25 October before we can say what impact the cuts will have on the work of the RSC. As a supporter of the principle of arm’s length funding, I find it disappointing that the Arts Council has taken a bigger hit than the DCMS overall as they've already made significant savings in the recent past."
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