Royal Shakespeare – Time For A Makeover

Directing the down-and-out Royal Shakespeare Company is called the toughest job in theatre. And Michael Boyd now has the job. Big changes are ahead he says. “At present, the RSC is ‘too big for anyone to run’ and ‘too big for people to identify us’. He presides over an antiquated corporate structure, with 30 governors, 12 of whom are on the board. It is imperative, according to at least one governor I spoke to, that the RSC reorganise itself structurally and that creative and commercial genius coincide. Arts Council support depends on the ability to generate income by other means. Boyd has taken this on board, telling me that he and Christopher Foy, the company’s managing director, will ‘work seamlessly together to try and close the cultural divide between art and management’.”