| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Tony Ramsay | |
| 2 | Anonymous | This just can't happen. Christmas wouldn't be the same without EA!! |
| 3 | Gerry Bremner | |
| 4 | karen goddard | This proposed funding cut is outrageous! It will jeopardise Eastern Angles' ability to take low-cost, high-quality drama productions to audiences in villages and market towns all over East Anglia.... |
| 5 | Cliff Hoppitt | Eastern Angles productions give a unique perspective on East Anglian life that would be unattainable with them. |
| 6 | Charles S. Bull | Arts funding in the regions is being slashed for the sake of a London-based Olympics. It is the same in my home area (Boston, Lincs- Blackfriars Theatre). I wish you well in this fight. We all need to group together so that a collective voice is heard from the regions. |
| 7 | Anthony George | |
| 8 | Sarah-Jane Read | |
| 9 | Diccon Ramsay | |
| 10 | Claire Scott | |
| 11 | Fiona | |
| 12 | PHIL CORY | I am disgusted with the proposed cuts to Eastern Angles Funding. They are the premier Theatre Company in the Eastern region and should be treated with respect. |
| 13 | Rajni Shah | |
| 14 | Anonymous | A totally unacceptable and unexpected decision - wrong in the management of arts funding nationally and wrong in this specific instance. |
| 15 | M D Caddick | Eastern Angles are an important and unique part of the cultural life of East Anglia. The Arts Council MUST rethink this stupid decision. |
| 16 | Anonymous | Eastern Angles keep theatre alive and they also enable amateur groups the use of the Sir John Mills Theatre so they are able to perform |
| 17 | Mike Kwasniak | We are appalled by this ridiculous, short-sighted decision and hope that the Arts Council will reconsider making this destructive cut. Eastern Angles offers a unique service in this region, which we (including the Arts Council!) should be proud of. |
| 18 | ivan howlett | This is a quite underserved cutting of a relentlessty innovative company, which is widely praised and serves East Anglia as no other arts organisation has ever done. A breathtakingly shortsighted decision. |
| 19 | Daniel O'Brien | |
| 20 | James Mackenzie | |
| 21 | Derek Wilde | This is a disgrace. No company in the region does better work. |
| 22 | Andy Yacoub | I support Eastern Angle's stance on asking the Arts Council to reconsider their plans for drastically reducing their core funding, based on the work and achievements of this only East of England rural theatre company. |
| 23 | Andy Yacoub | I support Eastern Angle's stance on asking the Arts Council to reconsider their plans for drastically reducing their core funding, based on the work and achievements of this only East of England rural theatre company. |
| 24 | Anonymous | I support Eastern Angle's stance on asking the Arts Council to reconsider their plans for drastically reducing their core funding, based on the work and achievements of this only East of England rural theatre company. |
| 25 | D Rush | |
| 26 | Chris Rolls | |
| 27 | Anonymous | There appears to be no reasonable justification for this cut which will seriously affect the Group's unique theatrical productions. |
| 28 | D Rush | Please dont destroy 25 years creativity for a political gesture. |
| 29 | Heather Appleton | Eastern Angles is a fantastic company producing fabulous shows that are perfect for various audiences. |
| 30 | Anna Travers | Theatre in East Anglia IS Eastern Angles. They are FROM the region, OF the region and FOR the region. But also take high quality work OUTSIDE the region. How can they not exist? |
| 31 | Anonymous | I live in a small Norfolk market town 10 miles from the nearest train and 23 miles from central Norwich. There are no evening buses.
Eastern Angles touring performances are a crucial part of our cultural life and are always well supported. My daughter, doing GCSE drama, and her friends, find the professionalism and innovation of the performances an essential part of their education.
I am horrified by the Arts Council's decision, which just proves that rural residents are not considered at all. Why jeapordise a valued rural service that works well in the name of "regionalism". ACE's region doesn't seem to stretch beyond Bedford, Watford and Cambridge. |
| 32 | richard simon | East Angles manages to bring theatre to remote villages all over East Anglia for very little cost to the country. It seems punitive, if not downright spiteful to slash its budget . Who is going to rerplace the cultural service they provide. The arts council is supposed to support bringing the arts to people unable to get to the big centres; they shoudl surely be increasing rathr than decreasing the support they give EastAngles. |
| 33 | Adam Clark | |
| 34 | Roy Marsh | It's good, it's local, it doesn't cost much, it supports young actors and new writers and there's nothing else like it in the region. |
| 35 | John Moreton | The decision to cut to EA grant seems to have no logical basis as they are meeting all the criteria and can demonstrate local support with good audiences and good Local Authority Funding. I believe another rural agency in East Anglia has also been cut - what happened to equality of access |
| 36 | David Yorke-Edwards | |
| 37 | Brendan Murray | Consciously or otherwise this decision is a serious attack on the work of a pioneer - and leader - in the field of rural touring theatre and therefore on the cultural lives of people living in rural East Anglia. It should be reconsidered. |
| 38 | Brendan Murray | Consciously or otherwise this decision is a serious attack on the work of a pioneer - and leader - in the field of rural touring theatre and therefore on the cultural lives of people living in rural East Anglia. It should be reconsidered. |
| 39 | Lynne Mortimer | I have reviewed many Eastern Angles productions in many East Anglian venues - barns, village halls, school halls, an old maltings and at the Sir John Mills.
Their productions are accessible, relevant, friendly, entertaining and thought-provoking. This is a company that should be attracting more money from funding institutions, not less.
I find the Arts Council's reasoning absolutely mystifying and thoroughly demoralising. |
| 40 | Ruth Hayward | |
| 41 | Nick Wood | |
| 42 | Alastair Cording | An appalling decision which will deprive four East Anglian counties of a well-established, well-supported, artistically successful and locally popular theatre company. Eastern Angles takes almost exclusively NEW plays to its audiences: few - if any - building-based companies can boast such an achievement. |
| 43 | jane maher | I fully support Eastern Angles in their fight to have the Arts Council decision revoked |
| 44 | Peter Sowerbutts | |
| 45 | Claudia Leaf | This company is a valuable local resource which should be supported |
| 46 | Jim Bowman | Little point in funding new, exciting initiatives if you fail to continue support for those who already use your funding to such superb effect. I have seen EA's from both "sides", as a former freelance lighting designer for them, and more recently as a reviewer for the BBC. They already do consistently excellent work on a shoestring - this cut would be utterly ludicrous. |
| 47 | Nicola Werenowska | |
| 48 | Paul Pearce-Couch | Only in Britain - we take away cash from already under-funded arts companies... and hand £4,000 a time as bribes to failed asylum seekers. CRAZY! |
| 49 | Matt Beer | |
| 50 | clare summerskill | Eastern Angles is one of the very best community theatre companies I have ever seen in this country. Please re-consider cutting it's funding and allow their very high standard of work to continue. |