The arts world sees working-class people as a problem to be solved

Publicly funded art is still dominated by a privileged elite who fail to engage the majority of the populationFrom Edward Bond’s generation of working-class writers to the flowering of companies that relied on enterprise allowance in the 1980s, theatre is often at its best when there is a broadening in the backgrounds of those who are making it. The majority of artistic directors, producers and chief executives in British theatre are still white, privately educated men. A hugely disproport