summary from http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-long-shadow-theatre
during her government as prime minister, margaret tatcher did not show a special interesting for arts, but she left a mark on it that nowadays it's possible to see yet. she shifted away public funding to private corporations, what meant arts council turned from an independent agency to a government department.
norman st john-stevas always said that tatcher guaranteed that in culture and arts there would be no a "candle-end" particularly talking about funding in that area of her mandate. well, the underfunding between her government began with a 4.8% grants and ended with a 2.9% of cuts in arts council. in 1987, her arts minister richard luce said that anyway the only solution to this problem would be attract enough customers to support the arts. to do this she wanted to use the british theatre popularity.
andrew lloyd webber as an icon music composer was chosen by margaret to complete the mission for save culture revenues. the report's author says during thatcherism the only form of theatre that had been doing was musicals - like les miserables, the phantom of the opera, and others - form that identified the cultural practices in 1980's. British companies pushed for promoting theater activity through musicals.
in spite of tax practices from thatcherism, there were a group of dramatists leaded by howard brenton and tony howard who wrote a satirical attack to margaret produced at the theatre royal, a short sharp shock. the play was a controversial work, however it put on theatre a strong character both in reality and scene. other dramatists were subtler when they wrote about thatcher. one of them was caryl churchill with her top girls, where the dramatist gave a critical point of view about role of women in society, no need to be men.
as time passed, more dramatists appeared in cultural scene analizing thatcher as a character. dave hare in the secret rapture talked about the thatcher's rage came from some secret fact within her life. alan ayckbourn with his play a small family business portrays all the traditional family values pertaining to the values that thatcher wanted to promove.
nowadays, the fascination of british dramatists with the margaret's character continues. james graham's little madam propose a peripheral woman with ordinary problems as a common person. in the peter morgan's the audience she is represented by haydn gwynne who shows a thatcher over the queen.
in spite of tax practices from thatcherism, there were a group of dramatists leaded by howard brenton and tony howard who wrote a satirical attack to margaret produced at the theatre royal, a short sharp shock. the play was a controversial work, however it put on theatre a strong character both in reality and scene. other dramatists were subtler when they wrote about thatcher. one of them was caryl churchill with her top girls, where the dramatist gave a critical point of view about role of women in society, no need to be men.
as time passed, more dramatists appeared in cultural scene analizing thatcher as a character. dave hare in the secret rapture talked about the thatcher's rage came from some secret fact within her life. alan ayckbourn with his play a small family business portrays all the traditional family values pertaining to the values that thatcher wanted to promove.
nowadays, the fascination of british dramatists with the margaret's character continues. james graham's little madam propose a peripheral woman with ordinary problems as a common person. in the peter morgan's the audience she is represented by haydn gwynne who shows a thatcher over the queen.
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