Kwame Kwei-Armah is to step down as artistic director of the Young Vic, one of the foremost theatres in London. In the announcement, which comes six years after he took up the role, he said it had been “the honour of a lifetime” and that he was proud of the theatre’s achievements in terms of “innovation, access and community”.
However, he starkly summed up the tough landscape for the UK theatre industry and called for government intervention to help a sector that is still recovering from the pandemic and faces pressures from rising energy costs, inflation and cuts to arts funding.
