Paapa Essiedu

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The RSC based in Stratford-upon-Avon, said the decision not to have taken "easy"

The Royal Shakespeare Company is giants its partnership with BP at the end of the year after criticism of his links to The International oil.

The RSC said that it "is not the "strength of feeling" against The Deal could ignore".

last week, the students of the theatre Company , if it is not unplug-left with The Company .

"Young People now say, clear to us that the BP sponsorship is putting a barrier between you and your desire, it was with the RSC",.

BP has subsidized, the Stratford-upon-Avon-based Theater Company 's £5 Ticket scheme for 16-to 25-year-old.

BP " disappointed and dismayed,'

Gregory Doran and Catherine Mallyon, the theatre group of artistic and managing Directors, said the "difficult" decision not yet been reached "easily and quickly".

"We would like to thank BP for their generous support of the RSC, since 2011," they said.

Sir Mark Rylance will be joined as a RSC associate artist earlier this year,

In a statement, BP said it had been brought "disappointed and dismayed" by the partnership to a "premature" end.

"has seen in The Past eight years, our sponsorship activated than 80,000 Young People to the RSC services at reduced prices," it continued.

The Company said it shared "many of the concerns that contributed, apparently, to the decision" and was anxious that the energy is "better and cleaner".

"The increasing polarisation of the debate, and tries to exclude the companies involved, so that real progress is exactly what is not needed," it continued.

Paapa Essiedu and Ewart James Walters played in the RSC's Hamlet in 2016

last week, a group of students said they would RSC boycott productions, to accept, if it continues, to destroy the financing of a Company they accused of "our future".

"BP's influence is nothing More Than a stain on the RSC," she wrote in a letter.

Earlier this year, Sir Mark Rylance , a long-time critic of the sponsorship agreement, such as an RSC associate artist.

In his resignation letter, the Oscar-winning actor said he did not "want to be associated GP More Than I can with a weapons dealer, [or] tobacco sellers would".

Greenpeace UK, said it was "time, the other oil-funded institutions have taken note of".

Morten Thaysen, climate campaigner at Greenpeace, said: "Grassroots campaigns such as the GP Or Not-is deservedly gaining GP and The Youth striker. It's hard not to think the walls are closing in on the BP. "

BP spends £7. 5 million per year for the art and culture sponsorship, which includes, deals with The British Museum, The Royal Opera House and The National Portrait Gallery.

It cut its sponsorship of the, but said the decision was the result of protests by climate activists.

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Source of news: bbc.com