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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 (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 you’d owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way (Timothy West Quotes)
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 (Timothy West Quotes)
I’m reluctant to use the word class so much (Timothy West Quotes)
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language (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)
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 don’t like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever (Timothy West Quotes)
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 (Timothy West Quotes)
The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them (Timothy West Quotes)
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 (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)
Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren’t always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres (Timothy West Quotes)
When you’re 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)