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Drama heightens at NT
The publication of the National Theatre's annual report has added to increasing controversy surrounding the future of the theatre in the light of a perceived lack of artistic direction and spiralling debts.
The NT saw its deficit increase by £462,000 to a total of £626,000, but the report remained optimistic highlighting turnover a of over £20m, and assets of £3.6m as positive factors.
Despite encouraging audience attendance, which was at 77 per cent of capacity against a target of 72 per cent, the theatre will have to embark on a programme of budgeting to cut costs.
The NT's lack of official documentation or constitution defining a target audience or the theatre's responsibilities, together with the forthcoming departure of the current artistic director Trevor Nunn, has lead to questions about the NT's future.
Nunn's experience at the NT was chequered, seeing huge populist success with works such as My Fair Lady, but this tactic drew mixed responses from the theatrical world, being regarded as an excessively commercial approach.
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