Dame Judi Dench fears that money for arts used to pay for 2012 Olympics

Read More ]"/> Dame Judi Dench has spoken of her fears that money for the arts is being taken away to pay for the 2012 Olympics.

Dench, 75, said she was shocked at the ‘huge cuts’ and said the state of the arts was ‘precarious’.

The Nine star will be appearing on stage in Kingston, London, next year in the Shakespeare play of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

She said that she was ‘doing my bit to keep [the theatre] open’ and added that she was ‘concerned that they’ve taken a lot of the subsidy to the arts away for the Olympics’.

The Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, said in 2007 that the Arts Council England would lose over £100million of its funding over the following four years to pay for the 2012 event.

source: Splash News

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