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Letters: Bias to Left in political casting

... should also apply to left wing fringe companies? And what about the adver tisement in THE STAGE recently for a committed Socialist actress? This, too, is grossly offensive in a free society. Can anything be done about ?r> Edmund Dehn 56 Chepstow Villas ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 13 | Tags: letter 

Letters: Union in civilised hands

... cast ing. It is but another indication that our union is in responsible and civilised hands. One hopes that the committed socialists who would like to control Equity would act in a similar manner; but I would like to draw their attention and that of any ...

Published: Thursday 30 October 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 26 | Tags: letter 

Letters: Real art always shocks someone

... are in dulged, art will become completely gutless I, for instance, am offended by glori fications of war, cheap jibes at Socialists, portrayals of working-class people as clownish morons, etc, etc. I put up with all these in the interests of free speech ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 48 | Tags: letter 

Theatre Letters: A humiliating task..

... once they arrive. All they need to do is buy their own air- ticket. Other Centres, such as the US Centre and Centres in socialist countries, receive government sup port. The British Centre has no such funding and delegates are forc ed to go 'cap in hand' ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Continuing debate

... substantiated since the editorial department clearly recognises that it is a signal term. It indicates that a company is socialist, committed, probably working in the community or TIE field Well at least prospective auditionees know to whom they're writing ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Union paranoia

... calling the shots at Equity, however? And which short sighted, self-defeatists elect them? The so-called 'Union' is about a^ socialist- orientated as the Freemasons. It is elitist and irrational. I recently became an MU member. I only steal work from my fellow ...

Published: Thursday 10 November 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 14 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Political theatre

... Company are to tour The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Again!) that tired, old, simplistic, out-of-date Keir-Hardie Socialist tract. Opening at the Gtizens if you please. I hope the irony is not lost on other struggling playwrights besides myself ...

Published: Thursday 17 May 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Wagner wronged

... first time, ami- semiusm into his prose writings, under her influence. At the time of the conception of The Ring he was a socialist and exiled from Dresden as a supporter of the 1849 revolutions: my book publishes the poster for his arrest. The basic theme ...

Published: Thursday 17 May 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: The middle class united shall never be defeated!

... Miners which took place on November 25. Nowadays politics seem to be dividing the acting profession down the middle. Militant Socialists on one side and normal actors and actresses on the other. When I saw John Gielgud in his first season at the Old Vic before ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 7 | Tags: letter 

Letters: What will they say next about poor Strindberg?

... SIR,--There can hardly be another writer who has been called so many names as poor old Strindberg: misogynist, atheist, socialist, anarchist, mystic, Christian, reactionary and now Michael Meyer has added to this formidable list by accusing him of being ...

Published: Thursday 15 May 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

Letters: Money to burn as hatred takes hold of Equity

... errors of fact to pass unchallenged. Act for Equity was not formed as an answer to a Trotskyite threat but because a mildly socialist group of members, who called them selves CRAPE, issued a list of people to vote for. It thus became clear that to prevent ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 8 | Tags: letter 

Letters: What has changed John?

... value and necessity for all pan-timers to be repre sented. (Incidentally he was the Labour MP for Nottingham and a life-long Socialist). It is time, when the industry >s under attack from the present government, that the leadership should be concen trating ...

Published: Thursday 11 September 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 25 | Tags: letter