 and London Coliseum, said he was 'stunned, shocked and dismayed' at the announcement, which will affect the livelihoods of many of its staff. While the ENO faces an uncertain future, the Arts Council has given £2,076,906 to Headlong Theatre, whose artistic director has described Shakespeare's play as the pinnacle of 'white supremacy' and 'toxic masculinity'. The company will receive the money between 2023 and 2026, according to the TaxPayers' Alliance. The Arts Council national portfolio will give out £1.34 billion in grants over those three years, and almost 30 per cent of the organisations receiving money will be in London. The Bureau of Silly Ideas, an outdoor arts group which includes an electric vehicle designed to look like a foot among its projects, will receive £150,000. Other awards also include £330,000 for Music Action International which signed a letter to the Home Secretary criticising her immigration policy and has described the government's Rwanda plan as 'brutal'. 'Time to bring the curtain down on the Arts Council' Elliot Keck, investigations campaign manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'Taxpayers around the country are fed up with seeing their hard-earned cash wasted on cultural claptrap. 'Despite calls for gr){kind=link}
Organisation has cut all funding for the English National Opera and made donations to the likes of the Bureau of Silly Ideas
The Arts Council has funded a music group which attacked the Government’s Rwanda policy, as well as the so-called Bureau of Silly Ideas.
The organisation, which invests money from the Government and the National Lottery in the arts, made the donations as part of an effort to spread funds more evenly around the country.
Also in line for funding is a theatre company which argues Henry V was a power-hungry imperialist rather than an English hero and a theatre which had planned to run a family sex workshop.
The revelations come amid an ongoing row over plans to move more funding beyond London, which has seen the English National Opera lose all of its funding from the Arts Council.