Stephanie Tillotson - Aberystwyth, Wales

Dear Richard

I am writing to express my deep concern and shock at the recent news concerning the proposed change in funding status regarding The Centre for Performance Research. I believe that the Arts Council of Wales has decided to withdrawn revenue funding from CPR and has suggested that the organization move onto a project funded footing.

It is my opinion that CPR is an invaluable source and resource for artists, audiences, teachers and young people living and working in Wales. CPR provides access to instruction that would otherwise be impossible to undertake; invaluable to those wishing to train or to extend their areas of expertise and providing a space to be, to think and to dream. Furthermore, CPR is a priceless catalogue to those who wish for access to the innovative and internationally important artists, companies and thought concerning performance of the recent past. It is no wonder that CPR has an internationally respected place in the theatre and performance community, a place that I would think a huge deficit to Wales should the facility be lost due to lack of funding that makes core staff funding, and therefore the long term future of CPR, possible.

At his exciting and challenging period when the drama, theatre and performance community is looking forward to the proposed creation of a non-building based national theatre it is all the more important that the basic core work of the Centre for Performance Research be supported and utilized, without diminution, in the pursuit of excellence for, and by, the people of Wales. I wish, therefore, to lend my voice to the appeal against the Arts Council of Wales decision and to thank all concerned at CPR for the service they have rendered to the international community of artists over the years.

Yours sincerely


S. A. Tillotson
Aberystwyth, Wales