... strategic policy for the arts, and live theatre in particular. You described me as 'the founder' of Acting Positive, but strictly speaking that is not the case and overlooks the dozens of very hard-working actors and actresses who have given Acting Positive an ...

... Welsh Speakers, and rank-and-file English speaking members not even aware that the meetings were taking place. In any case, to conduct the proceedings in a language which only some of those present are able to speak, instead of in English which everyone there ...

... there- tore that this critic can use any pro duction of this play as the foil for his barbed and vituperative comments, when he speaks of Dame Agatha's absurdity and describes her as a con artist. Would that he had done his homework more accurately, for ...

... are cheap journalists playing games with the public and the theatre business. Thank goodness, in a democracy we are able to speak out against these people. In the end they may get the messaee! Nigel Jones blgin Close Horsham ...

... bloody heathens should be made to speak the Queen's English, upon pain of death? Take heed, Mr Radcliffe those at whom you rail speak the language of their birth, of their parents and forefa thers, of their nation. They speak the language in which they work ...

... be Scots. If you pro duced a season of Bcrkofif in London's East End, would you employ, say, Billy Connolly and ask him to speak cockney? Chris Ballance (an English expat) Vicarfield St Govan Glasgow ...

... dancers SIR -So Melody Urquhart is an industry expert! (Enter the dancing girls, February 13.) What a shame no one chose to speak to the organisation that repre sents the largest number of profes sional dancers in the UK British Actors' Equity. The 'new' ...

... Critically speaking this was rubbish SIR, -In the summer of 1965 I sat in the Memorial Theatre, Stratford on Avon, watching one of the great Macbeths of our time: Laurence Olivier. I How stupid of me and the rest I of the packed audience that night, I ...

... that of the very hard working and dedicated peo ple who serve as councillors. The average (silent majority) mem bers must speak up and demand that at all times we go forward with mutual regard and respect for all the differing points of view that will ...

... condi tions of employment and generally to look after the membership who are, after all, the real Equity. She/he could then speak to other members of staff about the legal protec tion that Equity provides free for all its members, about the backstage and ...

... fear certain people you quoted have got their facts rather muddled. May I be allowed to put the record straight? I cannot speak for the Bophu thatswana Broadcasting Corporation, which is a parastatal organisation (or a quango, as you refer to them in ...

... instance, in Fuengirola a small theatre thrives, now in its sev enth year, which provides a focus for a large number of English-speaking residents aged four to 94. Some 1 50 people, mostly amateurs but with a liberal sprinkling of retired or visiting pros, are ...