We secured a fair settlement for the arts in the comprehensive spending review and we also reformed the National Lottery, increasing the share to the arts back to what it was when the Lottery was set up.
"Bennett's play feels less like a class comedy than an old man's rage against the sterility of today's cautious, over-organised society, where all boxes must be computer-ticked, and all human spirit and oddity processed away, " said Ismene Brown in her review for The Arts Desk.
The independent review, chaired by Elan Closs Stephens, recommended that the existing arts council and culture board should be retained - rather than one of them getting the chop.