Angharad Wynne-Jones - Director, Lift - London International Festival of theatre

Dear Richard and Julie

I am totally flabbergasted by the news of CPR’s impending cut.

CPR’s work as a meeting place, for ideas, exchange and discovery connects Wales internationally with the best of contemporary performance practice to promote innovation, experimentation, and process in theatre and performance. For over thirty years I have witnessed and been engaged by the depth of its programmes from its innovative training programmes and approaches to making theatre alongside programmes of high quality presentations and performances from around the world that pursue ideals of accessibility without artistic compromise; sharing with practitioners and audiences the ideas and skills of the best theatre practitioners from across the world.

It has located Wales as a critical and significant player to the development if international discourse in performance making within the international cultural community. There is simply nothing else like it and it is beyond belief that the Arts Council should withdraw its support.Now is the time to invest more in this extraordinary institution that offers so much to so many. We need innovation of this scale and quality to address the significant issues of our time from climate change to national and individual identities, from social cohesion in diverse communities to the development of active citizenship. Cutting the organisation sends messages of myopic poorly made decisions and processes, and reduces confidence and interest in Wales as a creative country, with a rich potential of collaboration.

I hope and trust that commonsense will out and CPR will be saved

Best regards

Angharad


Angharad Wynne-Jones
Director
Lift - London International Festival of theatre
London

www.liftfest.org.uk