[…]as a very sophisticated man - because his dead now - named Frederick Coles. And he was Lord Merthyr's secretary. He was very familiar with the London theatre. And he wrote a review, which included the statement that if this boy chooses to make the stage a career, and something about whether he achie[…]
[…] bench tables and chairs in there and equipped the stage permanently for bingo rather than as it used to be you wheel on the ball machine and use the theatre’s PA system to do it. So yes I always fought very hard to stop any cinemas going to bingo but lost every time.
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[…]ent, right. It had not been my intention, as I Now recall, to stay in Stratton for all that law. What I wanted to do was to go out and do lighting on theatre stages, and above all, I particularly had in mind that somehow they will, please, I'd be finding myself seated at a switchboard that I had ver[…]
The copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project. LindsayAnderson, film director, theatre producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 18 April, 1991SIDE 1Norman Swallow: First of all, when and where were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalo[…]
[…] an actor and later an assistant stage manager for a theatre company on the Isle of Wight. He describes his […]
[…] Dust (1988). In addition, Diss also designed a number of theatre sets, working notably on Pinter productions as well as […]
[…] vested in the BECTU History Project. Lindsay Anderson, film director, theatre producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 18 April, 1991 […]
[…]n my, my parents divorced when I was about thirteen or fourteen, and then my father would take us for a treat each school holidays, and sometimes the theatre, and then he started taking us to films. I mean, the first films I kind of remember were things like Lost Horizon.
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[…]othing in it whatever, not even a chair. And there was some water on the landing. But, it was my own, and I had a corner. And it was in the middle of theatre land, which I'd always been obsessed by - the theatre. Don't ask why, I don't know. But I was. And then, eventually, I got a job, of sort[…]
[…]producer at Drury Lane and was known in the late 20’s and the early 30’s as the King of Pantomime and put on spectacular shows at Drury Lane and othertheatres. He was a chartered accountant and I’ve, the family has always been told the story that he was rather full of himself and to the extent that […]
