... No help from Equity Sir, The situation of the Open Space Company in rela tion to accommodation in Hol land was complicated by the fact that two contracts were involved one between the Open Space management and the Dutch management and the second between the Open Space management and each member. Prima facie it was for the Open Space management to make proper arrangements with the Dutch for the ...

... Hull Dear Sir. Michael Frostick's ending to the comment on Alan Plater's Land of Green Ginger in last week's Television Today, was glib, cynical and irrelevant. I can't really see how the critic can condemn whole places-- whether Hell, Halifax or Hull just because he enjoys allitera tion and old jokes. Let's consider for example, that Hull has one of the liveliest Arts Centres in the ...

... 'Popkiss' Sir, I would like to express my appreciation of the charming musical Popkiss, which sadly finished its short run at the Globe. 1 was lucky enough to see it three times and I found I enjoyed it more on each occasion. It was light and undemanding but tuneiui enter tainment at its best, and I have nothing but praise for the entire company of ten. WTiy did it flop? I don't pretend ...

... Joe Orton SIR, I am writing the authorised biography of Joe Orton, to be published by Penguins. I would appreciate hearing from any of your readers with letters or rurAllort irnc r\f Hrtnn JOHN LAHR 15A Chalcot Gardens, 1 England's Lane, N.W.3. ...

... Open mind on L.E. Dear Sir, With reference to Len New- combe's letter (Television Today, September 30. 1971) urging producers to remember that there is plenty of talent off the screen as well as on: I would just like to remind Mr Newcombe that we at Granada are well aware of this fact. The Comedians, for in stance, has brought together the talents of dozens of new faces and we are at present ...

... JONATHAN MILLER SIR,-- Listening to BBC's Start the Week, where one often meets interesting and amusing people, one heard the voice of Doctor Jonathan Miller, blandly deprecating a play back of his own ten-year-old recording from Beyond The Fringe. It belonged, he protested (with shame and nausea), to the awful idiom of that period as sociated with people like Sir Noel Coward or words to ...

... Equity SIR,--The staff attitude of Equity is well portrayed by Stephen Sylvester when he begins, ''I have always suspected the motives, and then ends his letter without reminding your readers that he was formerly Mr Croasdell's tant. With regard to my letter in The Scotsman during the Living Wage Campaign, this had nothing to do with wages nor did I depreciate Equity's efforts to tnprove ...

... NEW END Sir,--I agree with the letter that actors in the theatre profession are sometimes abused by management or directors. However, it made reference to Theatre at New End. quoting an earlier letter from the actor Simon Cuff about the technical difficulties at the first night of Meeting Ends, and the worries it caused the cast. I would like to make it clear that Meeting Ends was a ...

... TECHNICIANS Sir,-- With reference to the article Where are the Technicians of Tomorrow, may I pass a few comments as a technician with over 40 years' experience? firstly, 1 was surprised with John Bury's approach to the stage designer, in as much that he would ask the technician How can I do this? Surely a competent stage designer worth his salt, should be fully conversant with scenery con ...

... SOUND SIR,-- I would like to underline the comments of Denis Harbour and Gwen North. Theatre sound, is, on the whole, appalling. Though when it is good it can steal the show. In our wide tours of Scotland and England I have never come across a theatre with suitable sound equip ment. To get sound to a high standard in the theatre one needs specialised sound equipment and a sound technician, but ...

... PROTEST Sir.-- We the undersigned members of Equity currently working at the Nottingham Playhouse believe that: The Council in its present form does not provide a democratic representation of the full range of its membership. We further believe that in order to provide a coherent determination as to whether or not Equity should remain registered under the Indus trial Relations Act, the ...

... EQUITY COUNCIL Sir.-- The list of newly elected members to the Council of British Equity makes melancholy reading. A group of right-wing reactionaries, by means of an organised propaganda campaign, by paid advertisements, by assiduous recruitment, by their quite spurious tence of non-political in volvement, and by raising the well-worn spectre of Left-wing infiltration have succeeded in ...