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artistic director Nicolas Kent said his revolutionaries in north London is facing a £ 350,000 cut in funding Playhouse next year

One of the oldest in the UK and most respected artistic directors standing outside the theater, which led for 27 years as a direct result of the art of cutting.

Nicolas Kent has been artistic director of the Tricycle in Kilburn, north London, since 1984, making it a highly successful theater known for his political work and work cultures.

But Kent told the Guardian that the cuts in subsidies and the government's insistence on philanthropy were untenable theater.

"I resigned in March due to cuts in government funding," he said. "The tricycle will receive nearly £ 350 000 less next year than we did in the last exercise of statutory bodies. Maintain the quality of work that we published is extremely difficult and probably more suited to new hands. "

Kent is confident replacement was found to keep the hits tricycle.

He is 66 years but says he has reasons for its decision. It is their frustration with the decline of public funding and difficulties in attracting philanthropic money for the type of game where you will find the tricycle.

said tricycle had slipped behind other similar theaters in terms of funding. "I think we have become victims of our own success. People look at us and think that the tricycle remained with them all these years, is in good hands, is a success, we can move forward. We were able to we lurch from one crisis to the crisis, but slowly and sadly, seem to get less money. "

The theater has become particularly famous for its politicians textual parts, including the Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor dramatization of the Hutton inquiry and investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence Macpherson.

Ironically, the theater has had a very good year. His season of work in Afghanistan has toured the U.S. and later this year two productions that come - The 39 Steps and broken glass - is played in the West End

Kent made the announcement Monday, July 4th, the day of the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt should make an important speech at the Whitechapel Gallery in London on philanthropy in the arts, the central policy.

But Kent said that philanthropy is not a panacea, and added that the U.S. model is not necessarily one to be envied and many medium-sized U.S. companies cinemas are in big trouble.

"I think the Conservatives cut the arts, even without the banking crisis because they believe in philanthropy, which is completely untrue," he said. "This country makes a living with great vitality of the British arts and creative industries, and I think that killing is absolutely myopic base - and that's what happens."

addition to suffering a 11% reduction in Arts Council funding over three years, the tricycle has also suffered at the hands of local government cuts, the loss of £ 56,000 from London Councils , a coordinating body.

"The cuts fell unfairly and ignores the fact that it is a double whammy - the art is to be beaten by the two directions, both the central and local government, "he said." It does not affect large organizations, which affects the entire regional countries. " There is little chance of Kent views to ask the government of its course to try to increase philanthropy to the arts.

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