“His departure comes after a difficult year for the increasingly beleaguered ENO. A 29% cut to its public funding was announced in July 2014. In January this year, the company’s chairman, Martyn Rose, stood down after writing, in a subsequently leaked letter, that the artistic director was part of the problem not the solution. Weeks later executive director Henriette Götz also resigned after disagreements with Berry.”
John Berry’s Turbulent Time At English National Opera: Combative But Imaginative
“Those who squarely blame him for the company’s current organisational meltdown will be heartily glad to see him go when he quits his post at the end of next week, but there is no doubt that he has shown bravado and imagination in his programming and pulled off some tremendous coups.”
Is Our Publishing System Narrowing Our Literary Culture?
“We are losing stories in the UK. We are narrowing our literary culture. We have a publishing industry which continues to perpetuate its failure to reflect the extraordinary spectrum of communities in this country and so we are losing that potential vitality, social exploration and innovation in the books we publish. Unless we tackle this lack of inclusivity, the mountains marginalised writers must climb in order to get and stay published, we may never reach our true potential as an industry.”
Read The First Chapter Of Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’
Or listen to Reese Witherspoon reading it.
‘I Don’t Know What To Do Anymore. I Was Hired As An Actor, Not A Policeman Of The Audience’: Patti LuPone Talks About Snatching That Phone
“We could see her text. She was so uninterested. She showed her husband what she was texting. … When we went out for the second act I was very close to her, and she was still texting. I watched her and thought, ‘What am I going to do?'”