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Actors resist pay cuts at the Peacock

Actors resist pay cuts at the Peacock

At a time of severe budget cuts across the theatre sector and tentatively proposed new models of making work, not all fee reductions are being readily accepted. In a letter to acting agencies this month, seen by ITM, Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail referred to the National Theatre’s decline in state subsidy – from €10m in 2008 to €7.25m in 2010 – as a rationale to explore new operational methods and to cut production costs. Having instituted a pay freeze on actors’ fees for Abbey productions in 2010 last December, he informed the letter’s recipients of a new policy to reduce actors’ fees at the Peacock to €600 a week – potentially a 35% pay cut for actors earning the Abbey’s top pay rate. The proposal met a vigorous response...

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Less work expected at the Peacock

Less work expected at the Peacock

The pay dispute over actors’ fees at the Peacock may have been resolved, but as the Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail pursues new models of operating the National Theatre with diminished resources,...

More clarity than hope at Theatre Forum meeting

More clarity than hope at Theatre Forum meeting

The meeting held by Theatre Forum in Dublin last week was an opportunity for practitioners in theatre, dance and opera to air their reactions to the severe cuts in revenue funding for this year, and...

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