Today, arts groups in Somerset will find out if the council's proposed 100% cut to their grants will go ahead. Could the rest of the country follow?
It's a Monday morning in the Somerset town of Taunton. White-haired women are chatting over teacakes in the Flying Aubergine West Country cafe. The river Tone is flowing prettily past a car park. And inside the Brewhouse theatre, actor Caroline Horton is on stage, wearing a silver-and-white dress that's twice as long as her body. On her head is what looks like an icicle. "Shall I do my white witch face?" she says.
Horton is starring in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, this year's Christmas production at this thriving theatre and arts centre, described last year by the Guardian's Lyn Gardner as "a crucial part of both the local and national theatre ecology". This is the first day of rehearsals, and the...
It's a Monday morning in the Somerset town of Taunton. White-haired women are chatting over teacakes in the Flying Aubergine West Country cafe. The river Tone is flowing prettily past a car park. And inside the Brewhouse theatre, actor Caroline Horton is on stage, wearing a silver-and-white dress that's twice as long as her body. On her head is what looks like an icicle. "Shall I do my white witch face?" she says.
Horton is starring in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, this year's Christmas production at this thriving theatre and arts centre, described last year by the Guardian's Lyn Gardner as "a crucial part of both the local and national theatre ecology". This is the first day of rehearsals, and the...
- 11/9/2010
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
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