00:00Well, I think it's changed when I was born and raised.
00:05Compared to the United States, where I was born and raised,
00:08it is an extracurricular activity.
00:11If you want to do that on your free time,
00:13by all means, go ahead and do it.
00:15But this feels like it's part of the culture.
00:18You were raised with it, right?
00:20You were.
00:20I think it's changed.
00:22When I was growing up here, there was Greater London Arts,
00:25who gave money to a lot of theatre companies and stuff like that.
00:31That was the ILEA, which gave money to schools,
00:35so that they could take busloads of kids to go and see theatre and dance,
00:41theatre and stuff.
00:41But all that's been shrunk.
00:44So there's not that infrastructure anymore to introduce kids to theatre,
00:53and make it part of the culture.
00:54Well, that's true.
00:56I think that's true all around.
00:59Unfortunately, our politicians, the first thing they'll cut
01:02when they want to save money is the arts.
01:05Thinking that the arts can't be as important as mathematics.
01:11And it's like, are you kidding?
01:13But I've begged to differ.
01:14I think that through the arts with politics,
01:18we would shift politics with the arts.
01:21You had plays that were speaking about the political situations going on in the world.
01:28And I think that they understand the power of that.
01:31And they're afraid of that?
01:32And they're afraid of that.
01:33And so that's why they cut the arts programs?
01:36Partially.
01:36Stop it.
01:37You're just...
01:38I'm not doing this with them.
01:39You can see what you are going on.
01:39Level that.
01:39And I think, I think, that they're going on.
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