Christopher Lee Power, actor, producer and founder of The Power Foundation For Young People is researching young people and the arts.
Below are the 4 questions being used for the research:
1. Is there a lack of opportunities for young people in the area to progress into performing arts? (Wirral)
2. What do you think of this: Tom Hiddleston has urged drama schools to lower their tuition fees or risk alienating young people from underprivileged backgrounds. He claimed that fees at RADA are now nearly 10 times more expensive than they were when he studied there in 2004. However the actor – last seen on stage in Coriolanus at the Donmar Warehouse in 2013 – also claimed people were “unfairly prejudicial” against actors who were privately educated, such as Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch. “There’s a justified anger about inequality of opportunity. People feel that spheres of influence, like politics and the arts, have become the preserve of a privileged few.”
3. Is there a lack of performing arts provision in schools due to budget cuts?
4. Do high university degree tuition fees mean that young people from poorer families are unable to take advantage of higher education?
Please direct any correspondence to:
Christopher Lee Power
Producer/Actor
The Power Foundation For Young people
Tel: 0151 645 9928
Mobile: 07958192028
Email: [email protected]
