Millions In Gov't Funding For Emma Rice's New Theatre Company 'Makes A Mockery Of The Entire Arts Funding System'

"Wise Children, the company, didn't exist until nine days before the deadline for registering a National Portfolio Organisation application [with Arts Council England]. ... It may be that the company's success provides a resounding and gratifying riposte to a ridiculous cock-up at Shakespeare's Globe ... But you have to ask: would other bold artists, who hadn't been blessed with the oxygen of publicity, be successful with a similarly astronomical application?"

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