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Arts feature

Defund theatres – and give the money to gardeners and bingo halls

Why does the state fund theatres and not gardening and bingo, asks Lloyd Evans

5 September 2020

9:00 AM

5 September 2020

9:00 AM

For nearly six months our subsidised playhouses, notably the National Theatre, have been dark. What have we missed? Not much. Some would say nothing at all. And this has come as a surprise to those of us who were led to believe that the subsidised theatre is critical to ‘the national conversation’.

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