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Dateline: 18th December, 2003 Hampstead Executive Director Resigns James Williams, executive director of the Hampstead Theatre, has resigned, as a condition, the Evening Standard reports, of the theatre's receiving a £500,000 rescue package from ACE (see our story of 9th November). Also part of the package is a revamping of the theatre's planning, including the coming season. When the play currently running, Revelations by Stephen Lowe, ends on 31st January, the theatre will go dark until 1st March when Hanif Kureishi's new play, When the Night Begins, will open, two weeks earlier than planned. Another world premiere, Drew Pautz's All This Stuff, due to run from 11th February to 6th March, has been postponed until the autumn, although no date has yet been set. "Since the new theatre opened in February 2003," the theatre's chairman Vincent Wang said, "it has become clear that our original plan for the organisation is unsustainable." The decision that Williams had to go was attacked by playwright Mchael Frayn who is chairman of the Hampstead Theatre Foundation. "Without James," he said, "there would quite simply be no Hampstead Theatre - no new building, because we should never have got it up, and no old one either, because it would long since have been closed down." Williams has been the theatre's executive director for five years. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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