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Timothy West Quotes
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. - Timothy West Quotes
Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they dont like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever. - Timothy West Quotes
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. - Timothy West Quotes
I dont believe in right-angled turning points. - Timothy West Quotes
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink. - Timothy West Quotes
I had no money at all when I was a student in the early 50s but I could get into a gallery at the Old Vic for one shilling and sixpence. - Timothy West Quotes
Im reluctant to use the word class so much. - Timothy West Quotes
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. - Timothy West Quotes
Lord Chamberlains readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could. - Timothy West Quotes
No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think theres quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences. - Timothy West Quotes
People gradually became more in need of plays, which showed life as it actually was, rather than life as you would like it to be. - Timothy West Quotes
Plays that had been done in the West End were available for production purposes by repertory. They were mostly light comedies and a lot of thrillers. - Timothy West Quotes
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they werent always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres. - Timothy West Quotes
Suddenly, touring became respectable, and it meant that people didnt feel that they had to travel 250 miles up to London to see a good play. - Timothy West Quotes
Thats what plays were about... smart people who did murders, or inherited lots of money or had love affairs or divorces or whatever. - Timothy West Quotes
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war. - Timothy West Quotes
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. - Timothy West Quotes
The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them. - Timothy West Quotes
The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else. - Timothy West Quotes
There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else. - Timothy West Quotes
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished youd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way. - Timothy West Quotes
Thered been a kind of hiccup when all those West End Comedies didnt show entire sections of the community, and that went on far too long. - Timothy West Quotes
Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlains 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. - Timothy West Quotes
When youre writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much. - Timothy West Quotes
Youre not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and theyll get you for it, theyll hunt you down. Thats the really frightening thing. - Timothy West Quotes
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