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LETTERS: ACTT and the BBC

... ACTT and the BBC Dear Sir, The effect of non-recognition at the moment is that the ACTT cannot really represent its members. It is true in practice ACTT officials can meet the BBC to discuss individual grievances, but until it is officially recognised it cannot negotiate with the BBC on salaries, on conditions of work, on health, welfare, hours, grading, holidays, and on all the other ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Theatre Workshop

... Theatre Workshop SIR, I have been commissioned by Messrs. Victor Gollancz to prepare, in collaboration with Olive Barker and Brian Murphy, a documented history of Theatre Workshop, from its pre-war beginnings to its final season at Stratford East. The work will be fuHy illustrated, and will in terleave a linking commentary with rehearsal-logs, letters, contem porary criticisms and similar ...

Published: Thursday 23 January 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Waiting for opportunity

... Waiting for opportunity Dear Sir, After having read Hughie Green's statements regarding auditions for Opportunity Knocks I should like to state my own personal views on this matter. Four years ago my husband applied for an audition and re ceived a form to fill in. After returning the form duly com pleted he waited patiently for an audition appointment. He is still waiting. In the meantime I ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1967
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Writers the Regions are being frozen out

... Writers the Regions are being frozen out Dear Sir, I was very interested in the discussion by Allan Prior about new plays and in particular radio plays. Richard Imison's letter to him quoted last week must have raised an ironical cheer in the Regions for there is an often expressed feeling in writers' circles at least in this part of the world that, as far as the BBC is concerned, the ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1966
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: An 'In' Group for series and serials

... An 'In' Group for series and serials Dear Sir, The writer of last week's letter in Television Today on an In group for series and serials should feel indebted to you for keeping his name a secret. He used, apparently, little thought, and a pen filled with the juice of sour grapes. A few questions for him. Why stop at serials? Or television? In justice, why should Laurence Olivier, on top of ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1966
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Equity affairs

... Equity affairs SIR. The letter from Brian Croucher. who describes himself as having been pari of the so-called disruptive element at ihe Equity AGM, requires an answer. Mr. (.roucners letter is literate, civilised and seems to say: Friends, at the AGM we were a small minority of keen, young actors who tried to bring some life into a mori bund institution. We tried to say that Equity should ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Australian artists

... Australian artists SIR, It is my opinion that Alan Guinness would not be so a palled by Barry J. Gordon's advertisement for English artists if he was more aware of current circumstances which made the advertisement necessary. As an Australian himself Barry J. Gordon is very conscious of the responsibility to use and encourage home-grown talent and, in fact, constantly endeavours to do so by ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Operetta

... Operetta SIR, I have noted a letter from your corrspondent. Lome Ed wards, in your issue of August 22. Mr. Edwards appears to be singu larly ignorant of what is currently happening in the theatre. As you are aware, there is a number one company of The Merry Widow at present on tour, prior to being presented in the West End. It is playing at the Alhambra, Bradford, this week and opens for ...

Published: Thursday 29 August 1968
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage

... SIR, Sir Donald Wolfit is mourned by theatre lovers everywhere, but those who launched the Federation of Playgoers' Soci eties and have been concerned in running it remember him with particular affection. The conference at Netley House, Shere, convened by the Playgoers' Society and the old Guildford Theatre was a modest enough be ginning, but Sir Donald Wolfit I accepted an invitation to ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1968
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Liverpool theatre

... Liverpool theatre CIR, I was very pleased to read v-* that Mr. John Neville had been appointed drama adviser to How ard and Wyndham. Let us hope that he will give Howard and Wyndham a well deserved shake up. At the Royal Court, Liverpool, all Howard and Wyndham have been able to offer us this year is three months of variety which occu pied Ihe theatre until March. We then had a recast version ...

Published: Thursday 09 May 1968
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: letter 

LETTERS: Double Your Money

... Dear Sir, I read the leader in Television Today last week on the reported ending of Double Your Money, and Take Your Pick, with great interest. I can't understand why there should be any logical juncture for the demise of two such highly successful programmes. They may not be everybody's cup of tea, but that they arc watched in over 12 million homes a week, surely proves their popular appeal ...

Published: Thursday 09 May 1968
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: letter 

To the Editor of The Stage: Shylock in the Park

... Shylock in the Park SIR,--Last week I took an American Jew to see The Merchant of Venice in Regent's Park. An embarrassing evening. The radical fault of this production is to make Shylock a Golders Green rabbi, an upright, worthy, most reasonable man. Shylock is only tolerable if he is preposterous; old, bent, tattered, mad. He is somewhere between the Wandering Jew and Fagin: perhaps Judas ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: letter