Why should theatre accept that the good years of arts funding are gone forever?

Class is absent

I’m finding the angles on this quite hard to keep up with, but the summer is over and in Keir’s Britain, the arts find themselves once again cast as the afterthought in a drama of potholes, culture wars, and repackaged money.

This week, Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph rightly warns that an “autumn of discontent” beckons, with strikes, tax hikes and i…