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Funding cuts has sadly spelled the end of the road for Waterford’s Red Kettle Theatre Company.

The cuts in funding has sadly spelled the end of the road for Waterford's Red Kettle Theatre Company. Founded in 1985, the company staged Jim Nolan's 'The Gods Are Angry Miss Kerr' - very much a Waterford play and so successful it was, that it sold out the Theatre Royal in the city - the first play to do so for many years.

Indeed Jim Nolan was one of those very much behind Red Kettle, a company that the led the way for performing arts in the South East as well as being a major force in Irish Theatre. The continued cuts in funding since 2008 was just too much for the company to bear.

Red Kettle will certainly be another blow to Waterford city, not just with the loss of jobs but also the void it creates in the world of the performing arts.

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