By Victoria Allen PUBLISHED: 23:36 EST, 17 December 2012 | UPDATED: 15:54 EST, 18 December 2012 Leaving: Vicky Featherstone, outgoing artistic director for the National Theatre of Scotland, said she has been 'bullied' for being English The outgoing director of the National Theatre of Scotland has revealed she almost quit over anti-English ‘bullying’. Vicky Featherstone set up the company from scratch, producing plays that travelled the world, including Black Watch and Alan Cumming’s one-man Macbeth. But now, leaving the job after six years, she has spoken out about the antagonism she  experienced for being English. The Surrey-born NTS artistic director is one of those attacked by Scots author Alasdair Gray this week as being a ‘colonist’, taking one of the best jobs north of the Border before returning to England.
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Outgoing director Vicky Featherstone fires parting shot at critics who 'paralysed' her
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Surrey-born founder of National Theatre of Scotland leaving after six years
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