... All voices have been heard In response to Sally Treble (December 23, Letters, page 7), what Sally and her 'resistance movement' continually overlook or conveniently forget is that the RepCon Group set up the Annual Representative Conference. At this conference every single branch (including, of course, the variety branches) and every single committee (including, of course, the walk-ons and ...

... Location praise Equity is urging members to report venues and locations where working conditions are appalling, or better than average, in support of the performers' working condi tions campaign. I worked as a supporting artist for the Green Stripe Unit of Thames Television's The Bill at HMP Oxford recently, the prison is now de-commissioned, and used exclusively for television and film ...

... Not so fast, we did Annie too Re: Your article about the world's fastest theatrical production (March 2, News, page 5), I should like to say that this is not the first time this has been attempted. In 1998 the Grayshott Stagers (amateur) presented Annie Get Your Gun in just the same way as the Edinburgh production is planned. At 7.30pm on Friday, June 26, 1998 the envelope was opened and we ...

... Venue's step in wrong direction Thank you very much for publicising the series of lectures in the north (March 2, News, page 6). However, in the article the location was mistakenly named as the Theatre Royal, Manchester, instead of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. As this is the venue for the first lecture, it is rather important that we send the punters to the right building. Howard ...

... Save us from dramatic exit I have been to the Milton Keynes Theatre many times since it opened last autumn and the productions and facilities are superb, but 1 am very concerned that the doors in the auditorium open inwards. Even though they are made to open automatically in an emergency there could well be hundreds of people pushing against them which would stop them from opening at all. ...

... Reform risks need discussion I am grateful for the prominent treatment in The Stage (July 6, News, Front page) concerning the licensing White Paper's risk assessment that there may be reduced opportunities for musicians to work as a result of the proposed abolition of the 'two in a bar' rule. The article is accurate except for one significant misquote. I did not claim that there had been ...

... Beyond a simple matter of taste? I write in response to Peter Hepple's review of To the Green Fields Beyond (Theatre Review, September 28, page 12). Without wishing to be disrespectful, I think that he and I must have been watching different plays. I went along with no pre -conceived ideas as the ticket was a surprise to me and therefore did not know what I would be seeing. However, I did know ...

... Risk to dancers from musicals is less than you think I write to protest at the misrepresentation of my view reported in an article by Sarah Willcocks ('West End dancers face injury threat' News, page 2, April 13). Your first paragraph states: Dancers taking part in West End musicals are at greater risk of injury than ever before, as producers vie to make shows more spectacular. I did say ...

... rong arrest Here we go again. No sooner does anyone speak up for the oppressed Received Pronunciation than the establishment--the speech police--jumps on them and accuses them of being anti-dialect. But no one objects to dialect. Remember Mollie Weir's beautifully spoken Scots or Gordon Jackson's? The trouble is that what often passes for dialect is not dialect at all but plain slovenly speech ...

... Fishing for Ann's stage history During research into my family history, I have encountered a member of my family named Ann Elizabeth Jermy (or Ann Elizabeth Salmon) who was born in 1861 in Stalham in Norfolk. She moved to London and was in service during the 1 880s in Marylebone. She produced an illegitimate child in 1 887; the father was an MP. She was then established as an actress on the ...

... Venues' cash crisis is a shameful business Re: 'Producing venues' insolvency crisis' (January 27, News, Front page). What an embarrassing and shameful business On the same day the Boyden report revealed that the majority of regional producing venues have no realistic hope of dealing with years of imposed funding reduction, the Millennium Dome after no more than five weeks trading received ...

... Help find Tim Can anyone help me to trace Tim Page? We first met working as part-time front of house attendants for the RSC at the Barbican. He went on to act in a number of plays, under studying Hugh Laurie in Ben Elton's Gasping in the I West End. I We lost contact in 1993, I shortly before I went to the States. I am now in Spain and should dearly like to contact him or anybody who knows his ...