LONDON.- Government funding struck Tricycle Theatre has found a new saviour in the form of art collector and philanthropist Al Weil. Weil is giving around 35 paintings by the renowned Victorian watercolourist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon to the theatre, to exhibit and auction, using the proceeds to support its activities. The Tricycle was a victim of the latest round of government cuts, losing £350,000 funding per year. As a direct result, Tricycle’s Nicolas Kent, one of the UK’s longest serving and most respected artistic directors, announced that he would be standing down from the theatre he has run for 27 years. “Ideally, I want Kent to stay on, but the main thing is to keep the theatre alive and kicking as vigorously as it ever has”, says Weil, now 89 years old and a keen supporter of the Tricycle. Weil was introduced to Kent and the theatre’s challenging political programme by his wife Joan Brown, t