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Article: Going east; The Royal Shakespeare Company.(theatres)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2006
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A troubled theatre company looks to Moscow for inspiration
MEASURED against the lifespan of the average firm, the Royal Shakespeare Company verges on the venerable. Based in Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, the RSC has operated as a finishing school for British acting and directing talent since it was founded in 1960.
Lately it has run into trouble. Its most recent crisis started when the RSC lost its secondary home in London in 2002 and ran up a deficit of [pounds sterling]2.8m, despite a regular subsidy from the Arts Council, a government body. Plans to rescue the company included knocking down the main theatre in Stratford and building ...