[…]it and it was the best thing I ever did and I learnt more at Ealing than anywhere else really. And in the holidays, I got this wonderful job with the theatre in Hampstead in a hut who eventually ended up The Mermaid, on Embankment but this was The Mermaid in its early days, and we actually had Kirst[…]
[…]e who made a terrific contribution to the film, for instance. And another French actor, called Padma visa was probably the top of his profession as a theatre actor. So we've got some good people. And on the one hand, I had to get the best out of them. So they were engaging and interesting. On the ot[…]
[…]p;R: Yes, and then it became BECTU. [Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Technicians Union then Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union] I: Right and then I'm interested to see and did you find that you were, you had fellow Designers in the Freelance sector? There wo[…]
[…]was. He was over here and in danger of being interned. I think he was. Well, he was in some kind of detention for a time. He had been at the Players' Theatre. A lot of people like him and er - Koestler - were sort of picked up because they were suspect and we, we rescued, rescued Koestler and he cam[…]
[…]r also carried on. So there was a little, we managed to keep, we managed to, fortunately to BECTU [The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union] and the brilliant Sharon Elliott, who represented me, we tied them up in so many knots and, because some of the redundancy procedure wa[…]
