Plays and Players: May 1973  14557

  • Letters
    • from Kenneth Tynan:
      • “May I destroy a myth that shows every sign of taking root? It is not true that, when deciding our future programme, we at the National Theatre sit twiddling our thumbs until Peter Daubeny releases his plans for the next World Theatre Season …”
      • Influences on NT programming:
        • seeing Jacques Charon’s Feydeau in 1962
        • Josef Svoboda in Prague in early 60s
        • Victor Garcia at the Old Vic in 1971
        • Eduardo de Filippo at the Théâtre des Nations in the 1950s
        • On not seeing the World Theatre’s Captain of Köpenick
        • Rules of the Game not from seeing production at Aldwych
        • Ingmar Bergman Hedda Gabler was due to WTC
      • “But there the tally of indebtedness ends: two productions out of the sixty-odd that the National has presented”
      • This theme continued in Scofield in style: Paul Scofield talks to Peter Ansorge
  • A bunch of five: Michael Coveney looks at faces on the fringe
    1. Marty Cruickshank
    2. Anthony Haygarth
    3. William Hoyland
    4. Mary Sheen
    5. Henry Woolf

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