Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age | Lee Hall | Stage | guardian.co.uk
This is a pretty compelling argument that the theater subsidies in the UK pay for themselves in terms of content and also performers for that content in the for-profit theater sector… rather like basic versus applied research I suppose.
If the Tories want to cut funds, that’s fine (I don’t live there), but if they were really trying to apply market thinking, they’d do well to consider whether the funds are going to, for lack of a better way of putting it, market differentiators. A nuclear deterrent doesn’t really differentiate the UK except inasmuch as they’re ready to battle the French and Germans. But you won’t see that get cut by a Tory government.
