Ella Mann is just 19 but she has already made her mark on the world. In September, feeling increasingly frightened by the quickening pace of climate change, she started writing a letter to one of Britain’s leading theatre companies. It was not a decision Mann took lightly, or one that she rushed. She spent days writing the letter which would pile pressure on the Royal Shakespeare Company to drop its longstanding relationship with oil giant BP. “I thought it was ridiculous, because Shakespeare is a key part of our identity and this identity is being stained by its association with companies that are destroying our planet,” said Mann, the daughter of a psychologist whose love of the natural world began from a young age. Her decision to take a stand worked: just days after her letter was published, the RSC announced its “difficult” decision to end its sponsorship deal with BP at the end of this year, saying it was clear that the arrangement was “putting a barrier” between young people and the theatre. Mann, a self-effacing gap-year student from Oxford who will study ecology and conservation biology at Leeds University next year, is one of a new generation of… Read full this story
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