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Article: Barrie's bid for backing to take Shakespeare to the Chinese.
- Article from:
- Evening Courier (Halifax, England)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2007
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NORTHERN Broadsides' Barrie Rutter is looking for backing from Calderdale businesses to take Shakespeare to China.
A year before the world's attention is focused on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he is hoping to take the Dean Clough company on a 14-date, three-city tour of China.
Already he has the support of J and C Joel, stage equipment manufacturers in Sowerby Bridge, who export to China, but Barrie said Northern Broadsides needed more backing.
If successful, Barrie hopes to return next year and reach a wider audience at the Beijing Olympics, and boost the number of Calderdale firms doing business in China.
"This is a tremendous ...