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Dateline: 13th April, 2006
Spacey Defends Himself Kevin Spacey has defended his management of the Old Vic in an interview of Radio 4's Today programme. He admitted that Resurrection Blues was not up to scratch when it opened, explained the departure of Jane Adams from the production, and claimed that his management was a success as he had almost doubled audiences at the theatre in the eighteen months he has been in charge. He also explained that the five months' dark period which the theatre is about to enter is not something for which he or the theatre should be criticised. (See our story earlier today) "We never announced a production for the summer slot and therefore we haven't cancelled anything - we just haven't scheduled anything," he told the programme "We took a view that if we couldn't find the right production that we felt was financially right to produce, it was in our interest to put all of our resources and all of our efforts into the work that we're about to announce at the beginning of May," he added. As for Resurrection Blues, he had realised early in the rehearsal period that things were not going as they should, which had led to much intensive work over a number of weeks to put it right. Unfortunately, he said, the cast were hit with a bad case of nerves on the opening night so that the critics saw a much worse production than the one which subsequent audiences have seen. And Jane Adams did not walk out, he insisted. There were "artistic differences" and her departure was mutually agreed. He is unrepentant about what he has done during his eighteen months at the theatre. He is more determined than ever that he will complete his ten year contract. Just eighteen months into his time, over 425,000 people have attended performances at the Old Vic, more than twice the number that attended during the previous two seasons. "We must be doing something right,"he said, "even though eleven or twelve people who write for newspapers don't particularly like what we've done." Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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