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From: Date: Saturday, June 15, 2013
Subject: From a FOH team member
 To: youngvicushersunite@gmail.com
 Hello,
 I would be greatful if you could anonymously add this to the blog:

To echo comments made in a previous post, all of this doesn’t come from nowhere. As a current member of the Front of House team, I have seen this coming for quite some time.

Events that have taken place in recent weeks have merely been the culmination of ongoing dissatisfactions. Poorly handled dismissals, an unhappy relationship between management and ushers, lack of communication over job security and a general feeling of being undervalued have inevitably resulted in low morale and anxiety within the team.

The Front of House team at the Young Vic are, for the most part, big supporters of the company, its ideals and its ethos and wish it well. We are the most diverse of any department in the building, truly representative of what the company strives for in its audience demographic and in many ways unlike any other theatre I know. Many of us are artists in own own right, actively pursuing careers as actors, directors, writers, designers etc.. and working as ushers whilst we establish ourselves as the theatre practitioners of tomorrow. All of this should be supported and celebrated by the Young Vic.

Many thanks.