Vicky Featherstone to step down as artistic director of Royal Court

Featherstone is latest high-profile figure to leave a major theatre in recent months

The artistic director of the Royal Court, one of London’s most prestigious theatres, is stepping down after 10 years in the job.

Vicky Featherstone, who has nurtured hundreds of emerging and established writers in her time at the Royal Court, will leave later this year. Having set herself a 10-year time limit when she took the job, she said it was time to “hand over the guardianship of this extraordinary, enduring mission to someone else”.