VanishingPoint theatre - which is planning several international collaborations this year - said its future programme would be left "constrained and compromised" if it could not apply for funding over a number of years.
The textures of shabby buildings and commercial signage along the riverbank contrast with a fragile tissue of lines representing countless masts, nautical rigging and curls of smoke that draw our eyes to the vanishingpoint along the blank unetched expanse of water.
But a frequently asked question these days is: Are we exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an economy?