Ruth Mackenzie: the British change-maker sacked by Paris's artistic elite by Kim Willsher In Paris

Despite fulfilling her brief to bring diversity to the Châtelet Theatre, the veteran director was brusquely dismissed. So what went wrong? When the British arts supremo Ruth Mackenzie was named artistic director of Paris's Châtelet theatre she thought everyone knew what they were getting. Her pitch for the job, approved by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, after a gruelling four interview panels, was to reinven…

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