... pages, I may seek assis tance with a documentary I am preparing? I am at the moment gathering together material for, so to speak, a stage Scrapbook of the years 1939 and 1940, emphasising the conditions and experience of the civilian popu lation. I shall ...

... Royal Ballet questions SIR,--Congratulations on your plain speaking editorial on the present crises in the Royal Ballet and Sadler's Wells Opera organisations. Several points, however, still need to be made. 1. The total loss incurred by the entire Royal ...

... the profession can gain practical experience-- in your leading article--hardly accords with the facts. It is not for me to speak for other similar organisations, but my own Opera Workshop, founded in January last year, provides as you will see from your ...

... is, I believe, a cardinal error to assume that an episode of a series in any way balances off a play. A series, generally speaking, deals with known characters in unusual situations. Because the characters are long- running, the outcome is largely pre-destined ...

... subsidy that their responsibilities extend not only to those who act but also to those who write the material that they speak. The quite callous disregard shown by the subsidised theatres almost without ex ception to the work of any authors who are ...

... who can only afford to do their playgoing in London in bulk as it is too expensive paying fares to London at various times? Speaking for myself, a pen sioner, I have to do a London visit as cheaply as possible, and have to book a hotel several weeks in advance ...

... winter season takes place at the Arts Theatre Club at 7.15 p.m. on Sunday next when Robert Hen derson, of Studio 68, will speak on Youth in the Theatre. He will bring a company with him to illustrate points of his talk. Admission is 1/- for members ...

... and grassy slopes and perhaps, for good measure, a waterfall with real water! Surely a fitting set ting for the actors to speak Shakespeare's immortal lines. LESLIE HAWKINS 6 Alfred's Road, Brighton. ...

... Society, Lona and Johan have both recently returned from fifteen years in America, and Ibsen gave them a breezy, slangy way of speaking which contrasts markedly with the prim language of the local stay-at-homes. It seemed to me obvious that their lines should ...

... has already had talks with Mr Carr's de partment about their special case Yes, it was a depressing day and I hope I don't speak en tirely for myself. Yours sincerely, David Markham Lear Cottage, Colemans Hatch, Hartfield, Sussex. ...

... a retired headmaster, a shoe salesman and a wrestler seems to be a contradiction in terms. People who wish to graduate to speaking parts without drama school or rep ex perience strike me as having clossal audacity when profes sionals like myself cannot ...

... extra, and from then on that's what you are in his mind. He will often seem neither to demand nor expect skill from a non-speaking artist, indeed will express surprise that you are an actor. There are some agents who will not take you on their books, or ...