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A campaign to save one of Wales's most important theatre companies was launched yesterday. Made in Wales, champion of new writing in Wales for the last 20 years, has been forced to close after having its grant stopped by the Arts Council of Wales as part of a wider reorganisation of new writing in Wales. From the start of the next financial year one company will commission and produce new plays in both English and Welsh, but with a cut in funds of £90,000 In a comment today writer Peter Morgan, from Bangor, has called on the Arts Council of Wales to suspend the decision and the Arts Council's drama strategy. Mr Morgan said Scotland spends five times as much on new writing as Wales does. Michael Baker, artform development director at ACW, also writing in the Western Mail, said, "one of the most serious challenges is how to sustain so many full-time organisations over the long term, and this has led to such decisions as the competition for the new writing initiative. ACW would like to provide more subsidy as has given an undertaking that it will review its funding to the new writing initiative next year" Writer Lewis Davies said "This is a country where the investment in new work through publicly funded organisation is so far behind the Scots and the Irish that in 30 years we'll still be waiting for the \annual Shakespeare production as an event of national importance" |
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Thursday, March 9, 2000 |
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