Sting and Stephen Fry among artists urging Garrick to accept women as members

Sting and Stephen Fry among artists urging Garrick to accept women as members

In letter ahead of vote, signatories say their relations with female colleagues have been damaged and threaten to quit club

The musicians Sting and Mark Knopfler have co-signed a letter with leading theatre producers and actors, warning that they will be obliged to resign their memberships of the men-only Garrick Club if members refuse to approve a decision to admit women in a vote next Tuesday.

The letter, seen by the Guardian, was also signed by the actor Stephen Fry, the West End and Broadway theatre producer Karl Sydow, and Matthew Byam Shaw, an executive producer on The Crown television series and co-founder of Playful West End theatre production company.

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