This book explores the failure of government subsidies to the arts as well as providing a case study of the disenfranchisement of the local, the indigenous, the politically inconvenient, and the unorthodox. On a smaller scale, the book looks at how a small Welsh village once considered the Athens of Wales for its professional theatre became virtually invisible as a result of politics, egoism, external influences, and government meddling. It is designed for academics and students in the humanities and social sciences as well as arts administrators, politicians, and cultural managers.