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‘Slap in the face’: backlash against National's primary school tours cut

Teachers, youth theatre bosses and playwrights have joined the outcry against the National Theatre’s 100% cut to its primary school touring programme, warning it sets a ‘depressing’ example for children’s theatre provisions