Thursday, November 19, 2015
I was horrified by the inference from Jennifer Gale (Letters, 18 November) that cinematic presentations of live plays include close-ups. Why on earth can’t the whole play be seen in the ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMMonday, November 16, 2015
“I don’t get people wanting to watch live theatre beamed into a cinema,” says Peter Bradshaw (Another Fiennes mess, My Week, 14 November). And so, Peter, we can assume that you, say, l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08PMPhilip Purser, in his obituary of Warren Mitchell (16 November), surprisingly made no mention of Unity Theatre as a formative experience. Mitchell, along with other household names like Alfi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
Like Ros Slowley (Letters, 10 November) I still have my Bayko but I remember Arkitex, a toy even more akin to Arckit. It was made by Triang and consisted of bases, beams and panels from whic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PMMonday, October 26, 2015
I applaud Ian McKellen’s exhortations for more plays to be broadcast on television (Report, 23 October). Judging by the popularity of the live (and repeat) screenings from the National The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46PMFriday, October 16, 2015
Angela Lansbury, to whom you pay deserved tribute (Lithe spirit, 16 October), came to lunch with me at the House of Commons last year during her West End run in Blithe Spirit, met the Speake…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PMThursday, September 10, 2015
As a widow, I would point out the tremendous advantage Queen Elizabeth II has had over Victoria in still having a husband thanks to medical advances. As a socialist, I cannot understand why …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:58PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Christopher Eccleston’s assertion that the “stage door is shut to poor children” (Report, 21 August) is in some ways correct. There are often significant obstacles faced by young peopl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMThursday, August 20, 2015
I had a friend who collected weird productions of Hamlet. They included Hamlet on a plank (suspended eight feet above the action); Hamlet on roller skates; and, my favourite, a production th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMThursday, August 6, 2015
In proudly asserting his cloth-eared philistinism, Bernard Ingham exhibits a very British trait but seems a little confused (Letters, 6 August). The Rite of Spring, which he claims to have �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:19PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Two points to add to Tim Auld’s piece on the impressive legacy of theatre director Stephen Joseph (Doing the rounds, Review, 11 July). Both refer to his “messy childhood”. Joseph alway…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:44PMFriday, May 22, 2015
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