The beleaguered stage director Emma Rice, who is to step down from running shows at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London following an artistic dispute, is at the centre of a fresh arts controversy this weekend. The champions of several rival arts organisations that failed to secure much-needed Arts Council funding in the latest round of grant awards are on the warpath. They argue that Rice’s new enterprise, Wise Children, which she will run when she formally leaves the Globe next spring, should not have received national funds before it was a going concern. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A scene from Rice’s production of Twelfth Night, which opened at the Globe in May. Dromgoole, who was artistic director at the Globe from 2005-16, spoke of territorial “jockeying” at the theatre.

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2017 18:11 UTC