Poor treatment
As far as I am aware, the staff at the Theatre Royal Margate have not been issued with redundancy notices and there is a petition with thousands of signatures on to protest at the appalling treatment of Michael Wheatley-Ward and his colleagues by Thanet District Council. The revamp is being presented as a fait accompli, which is not the case. I am sure that the council would argue that this is a generous rescue package, but do not explain why staff redundancies are necessary. There is also the semi-hidden subtext that the theatre is suffering from a lack of community-based projects, which is total nonsense, and that there was no ‘vision’ in its programming. It’s pretty difficult to have ‘vision’ when it is obscured by ten years of irregular and paltry funding packages. The trustees of the theatre have been put in an untenable position and could not win whichever direction they took.
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Jo Tuffs
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