I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.
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I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
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Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
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The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
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A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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