Photo: SuppliedTop Kiwi actors Sir Sam Neill, Robyn Malcolm and Michael Hurst have slammed Creative NZ’s defunding of the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival. For the past decade, Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ has received about $30,000 per year for the festival from Creative NZ. Sir Sam Neill. He said Creative NZ needed to recognise and honour the true history of Shakespeare in Aotearoa. "Reversing its ill-considered defunding of the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival would be a start."

Source: Otago Daily Times October 17, 2022 22:41 UTC