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Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

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Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.

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Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

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You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

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I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

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In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

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No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: October 20th, 1934

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