The row over fossil fuel sponsorship of the arts continued to escalate as actor Miriam Margolyes joined Mark Rylance in his protest against BP’s sponsorship of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now Margolyes has said she would also refuse to appear in any RSC productions while the company retained its sponsorship deal with the oil company. “Mark Rylance is absolutely right in his stance and I support it,” she told the BBC on Wednesday. However, the pressure is growing on arts institutions to sever their links with the company and other fossil fuel firms. “The arts have woken up to the climate crisis and we are increasingly seeing artists and musicians putting their principles into action.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2019 10:21 UTC