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Funding, philanthropy, structural inequality and decline in England's theatre ecology

Introduction: cultural policy and theatre, 2010–2015 Coalition government cultural policies have most affected theatre in England in two ways: by substantially cutting state arts funding and by promoting increased private philanthropic giving as the principal alternative. These activities demonstrate this Conservative-led government’s neoliberal commitment to cutting public infrastructure and bolstering private competition. What have they done for theatre? They have damagingly shrunk English theatre’s ecology and exacerbated its structural inequality, enhancing its elitism and metropolitanism.