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Mark Rylance resigns from RSC over BP sponsorship by Matthew Taylor

Actor says Royal Shakespeare Company deal helps oil firm 'obscure reality of its activities' With its links to BP, I can't stay in the RSC | Mark Rylance One of the UK's most respected actors is to resign from the Royal Shakespeare Company as a backlash against big oil's financing of the arts gathers momentum. Mark Rylance, who has been an associate artist with the RSC for 30 years, said BP's sponsorship deal allowed…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM on June 21, 2019

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