Lack of arts schemes for working class will make UK theatre whiter and posher, director says

Tinuke Craig’s latest work is a revival of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, about a black family trying to move to a white suburb of Chicago. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

The lack of investment in arts schemes aimed at working-class children will create a cultural landscape that is whiter and posher, according to one of the UK’s leading black British theatre directors.

Tinuke Craig, who has worked on productions including the Donmar Warehouse’s Trouble in Butetown, said the current crop of black British theatre talent was developed in the 1990s when free schemes aimed at improving access to the arts for working-class communities were common.