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Dateline:
6th January, 2012
Rep to Return to London?
Director Michael Armstrong has launched a fund-raising effort to find
enough money to set up a repertory company in London by the end of 2014
with further reps being formed across the country from 2016.
The proposed London Repertory Company will, he says, be funded by private
donations and corporate partnerships and has set up a website
which gives details of what the company will do and inviting donations
from private individuals and companies.
The aim of the company, the site says, is to:
- Operate all year round with a large resident company of actors performing
a varied repertoire of classics, new plays, musicals, comedies, dramas,
thrillers and popular shows, plus a traditional family pantomime every
Christmas.
- Be the first company ever to perform the works of Shakespeare and
his contemporaries restored and remastered into modern English, ensuring
today's audiences will understand every word the author wrote as clearly
as they did over 400 years ago.
- Revive the local rep tradition where the public can get to know
each other and the actors, personally.
- Have low ticket prices making the theatre affordable for all.
- Run an integrated education programme of workshops, talks and masterclasses
allied to national and international tours and live screenings.
- Run in-house apprentice-based training schemes in acting, stage
management, technical skills and directing, together with affiliate
apprenticeships in dance, music, design and allied skills & crafts.
- Set up an international supporter's networking programme for making
new friends and providing mutual benefits between people and small
businesses; thereby helping stimulate jobs and lower personal living
costs.
To help achieve all this, the website has a section devoted to fund-raising,
entitled "Raise the Curtain", inviting indidiuals and companies
to donate and offering benefits to those who do so.
Armstrong admits that the total cost will run into millions of pounds
but he believes it will "revive theatre".
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