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Dear Reader,
Out With Posh White Men
London's landmark National Theatre is to get its first female artistic director in its 60-year history, with Indhu Rubasingham taking over.
According to Ian Youngs, reporting in BBC.com, she will replace the National's current director Rufus Norris in 2025.
"Born in Sheffield and with Sri-Lankan heritage, she will be the seventh director since the National was founded by Sir Laurence Olivier in 1963. To date, its artistic bosses have all been "posh white men", as the Guardian's chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar recently put it - saying Rubasingham was "widely considered to be the industry favourite" to succeed Norris."
She us quoted as having said, "The National has played an important part in my life - from tentative steps as a teenage theatregoer, to later as a theatre-maker, and to have the opportunity to play a role in its history is an incredible privilege and responsibility. Theatre has a transformative power - the ability to bring people together through shared experience and storytelling, and nowhere more so than the National."
Her work in this prestigious position will be keenly awaited!
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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."
- T.S. Elliot
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