... No amateurs in the Kitchen SIR In a recent article, Equity defends use of amateurs (The Stage and Television Today, February 24) it was suggested that the wait resses in our current production of The Kitchen were amateurs. They are in fact either members ...

... in the kitchen Sir, You describe the Perth Theatre Company's production of Wesker's The Kitchen as a first-ever out of London showing (The Stage: March 7). For the record (and for what it's worth), I had the pleasure of directing The Kitchen for the ...

... News from The Kitchen SIR This is to clarify the situation: the Royal Court Theatre would not consider transferring The Kitchen to The Roundhouse unless all the actors were on full Equity contracts. This decision was not in response to pressure from Equity ...

... 'KITCHEN SINK' SIR,--I was interested in Yoti Lane's article on the present controversey regarding modern playwrghts especially her reference to Coward and Rattigan. The latter recently contributed an excellent article in one of our national newspapers ...

... over Drama's destinies for so many centuries. Will any gentleman, or any lady, be so kind as to pull out the plug of the kitchen sink and let the suds of salao't y and stupidity go down the drain? Mat C. Bryne. 13, Taunton Avenue,. S.W.20. ...

... New Kitchen Sink Public CIR, I am writing to say how much I agree with your leader commenting on my use of the words boom in the theatre. In self-defence I must tell you that the word was used in the form of a question by a journalist who asked: Do ...

... way Commercials fall down on realism. Detergent spots are notorious for this especially when it comes to kitchens. They ALL imply that EVERY kitchen is large, light and full of modern equipment, including, of course, a washing wchine. Why aren't some of ...

... wore a pink overall; always white, and no cap. We, the kitchen and scullerymaias, wore coloured overalls and caps, but not the cook. No bootboy would ever have dared to polish shoes beside the kitchen table. He was right about serving from the left and ...

... Dictionary gives profes sional: undertaken as a means of subsis tence, as opposite to amateur. The amateurs in the The Kitchen may have a professional attitude but engaged as professionals they are not. They are given a courtesy amateur handout which ...

... sweeping condemna tion of avant garde rubbish is not worthy even of discussion and although my play is far removed from the kitchen sink, I am equally far removed from Mr. Johns in his attitude towards the theatre. Yours faithfully. Leonard Samson. 70 Kings ...

... Put story into modern terms Dear Sir, I am interested to find that I had anticipated kitchen sink drama with my adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's The SiLk Stocking (Philip Purser's article Drama The Single Play in Tele vision Today's ITV Supplement). All ...

... Jim Davidson, as Buttons, suddenly flew up to the dress circle and back, at speed and without warning at the height of the kitchen scene. A coup de theatre indeed. The firm that organised these flights was Hi-Fli. Humphrey Stanbury Compton Close Kinver ...