Worthwhile use of funding?

Published Thursday 2 February 2012 at 17:27

My reaction on reading your article Back from the Brink (The Stage, January 26, pages 6-7) was to wonder whether staging (among other things) three musicals and a Terence Rattigan revival at Chichester Festival Theatre last summer was a justifiable use of a £1.5 million Arts Council England grant.

Anthony Wills

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