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New name call for Theatre Museum
ACTORS and theatre lovers used the 2006 Theatre Book Prize
ceremony to call for the Victoria and Albert Museum to save
the Theatre Museum – and consider changing its name to
Theatre World to attract new visitors.
The V&A owns the Theatre Museum, and is considering closing
it due to cash problems.
Actor Sir Timothy West, currently starring in Alan Bennett’s
the Old Country at the Trafalgar Studios, told the gathering
at the Theatre Museum on Russell Street, Covent Garden on yesterday
(Wednesday) that he did not think the V&A should close the
museum but should consider changing the name.
He said: “We (the museum) are not very well served by our
title. What is needed is a name that reflects, informs, justifies
what we are trying to do.”
The Royal Opera House is understood to be looking at trying
to set up a partnership with the V&A to maintain the museum
in its current home, and a consultation document is set to be
published today (Thursday), but whether a new name is being
considered is not yet known. |
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