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Post by lynette on Oct 3, 2020 17:15:37 GMT
No one from my city has ever been appointed. Does that count as blatant discrimination requiring immediate redress? Well, tell us the city then. |
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Post by zahidf on Oct 6, 2020 13:27:42 GMT
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Post by lichtie on Oct 6, 2020 13:37:21 GMT
Just got the member's email. They only plan to open the RST - Swan and Other Place to stay shut until 2022. H6 now going ahead in 2022 as a result. They still plan for Winter's Tale and Comedy of Errors next year with full productions. The other new bit was this:
In addition, this Winter, small-scale socially distanced performances will take place in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and be streamed into homes, alongside free outdoor activity in Stratford-upon-Avon.
But not greater detail of what such performances will be.
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Post by Jan on Oct 7, 2020 17:38:16 GMT
2022 ? ACE should cut back their 2021 grant then and give it to more enterprising theatres. I mean their sense of entitlement is staggering - in 2021 they're taking £15 million from ACE and only doing two full productions ?
I see Hampstead are opening The Dumb Waiter in November - is this the first example of a postponed production being re-staged ?
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Post by lichtie on Oct 7, 2020 21:14:37 GMT
3 productions - I didn't bother to mention the Christmas show as I have no interest in it....
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Post by Jan on Oct 8, 2020 6:55:00 GMT
3 productions - I didn't bother to mention the Christmas show as I have no interest in it.... Ah, I stand corrected, but that makes it easier to do the maths, £5m grant per show - they should be spectacular. I'm a bit surprised they're only looking to make 150 or so staff redundant, they have over 1000 on the payroll don't they ? As Doran is apparently directing nothing at all until 2022 at the earliest he should furlough himself - I mean what exactly is he going to do all day for the next 18 months ? |
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Post by cirque on Oct 16, 2020 8:50:53 GMT
very glum reports from Stratford-small outdoor winter and perhaps a few on stage events but compared with some its very tiny.Have really bad feeling about RSC.
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Post by cirque on Oct 23, 2020 8:17:52 GMT
RSC....?
Have no recent record of activity.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 23, 2020 8:29:15 GMT
There was the announcement earlier this week of the RSC's involvement with Coventry City of Culture, but 'Faith' will not take place until September 2021.
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Post by theatremad on Oct 24, 2020 17:34:32 GMT
Did the RSC get any money from government in recent handouts? They've stayed quiet about it?
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Post by cirque on Oct 24, 2020 20:18:04 GMT
Going for government loan as above limit available.
Beginnning to forget this company.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 4, 2020 16:53:24 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 4, 2020 17:41:16 GMT
Yikes!for a minute I thought they had cast Michael Grove  |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Dec 12, 2020 14:19:26 GMT
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Post by peggs on Dec 12, 2020 17:42:01 GMT
Noticed yesterday historic royal palaces have been given £40 million pound loan but they seemed to think with careful planning and assuming life will go back to visiting normal in the next year or so they could pay in back in time. The amount of money they were losing a month being shut was huge but then I suppose that kind of place is pricey to visit and will pack visitors in. Though if foreign travel doesn't pick back up lots of these sorts of places will suffer as that must make up a huge part of their footfall.
No idea how the RSC could pay this kind of figure back.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 12, 2020 17:54:16 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 12, 2020 18:10:19 GMT
They do have up to 20 years to repay, a repayment holiday of up to four years, then a low interest rate for the remainder of the term. Given a choice between a commercial loan, or the ones on offer here, I suspect I'd choose the latter, which is what Michael Harrison and the two Nicks at the Bridge have done.
And should there be a change of government at some point in the future, I would think that debt forgiveness is a very real possibility.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 12, 2020 18:17:42 GMT
I appreciate they will have dipped into their reserves a bit this year but at the end of their last reporting cycle, they had significant investments. Tens of millions of pounds.
They can repay this loan.
Some might argue that they should not have applied considering their assets. But that is another matter
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Post by peggs on Dec 13, 2020 22:11:05 GMT
And there was me naively thinking they just had ticket sales to survive on!
Yes I did wonder if some of these loans might one day be written off depending on who was in power and how things were going.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 13, 2020 22:38:35 GMT
And there was me naively thinking they just had ticket sales to survive on! Yes I did wonder if some of these loans might one day be written off depending on who was in power and how things were going. They have millions upon millions of assets and investments. Now some of those are in property and thus not quickly accessible but they are far far far from poor. |
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Post by peggs on Dec 13, 2020 22:53:24 GMT
I see. That puts a rather different slant to it. Have I been terribly gullible when it comes to places asking for my financial support this year?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 14, 2020 0:11:53 GMT
It is always worth checking Charity Commission/Companies House reports if you can find them.
Press releases pleading poverty don't always present the whole truth.
This is not to say companies don't deserve support. It is a complex picture. But I do question the way money is given out to a large number of arts companies
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