[…]eam department of Bangor, north Wales. And so I was able to do that show up there with the entire organisation was up there to sue the orchestra, the writers everything. And that was very exciting. And for Ronnie Wallman that show for the run for Roy Plumley. So that was just a matter of weeks befor[…]
BECTU History Project Interview with Diana Morgan - actress, playwright, screenwriter28 September 1992Interview number 265 Interviewers: Sid Cole, Alan Lawson Recorded at Denville Hall SIDE 1 (Preamble)SC: Diana, it’s lovely to be interviewing you. As I was saying let’s sta[…]
[…] nine months... Roy Fowler: As what? As in the copy writer or on the office side? E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, just […]
[…] DM: Sergei Nolbandov. Because Pat Kirwan who was also a writer on it said to me ‘I’m going to write […]
[…]4 And I didn't know I was really green, very naive. I didn't know until I'd left the company a long time later, that these were the blacklisted writers from America who couldn't work there. So we're working here. absolutely charming. I had a wonderful time. And of course, Robin Hood was very s[…]
[…]od but the problem was that whereas I'd gone in expecting to be temporary with you know six or nine months...Roy Fowler: As what? As in the copy writer or on the office side?E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, just as the general office dogsbody, office boy really. But the idea was that I would move o[…]
[…]d it be fair to say that with the membership of the society, we are talking about the kind of comedy that was very popular in Tony's day? London, the writers pee had? Would it be fair to say that by joining the society, people, especially, as you say, younger members, would experience or could exper[…]
[…]er house and an English garden. But only the first 50 or 60 pages of the script were written because Eric Ambler wasn't.I mean, he's a he's a, he's a writer of books and not a script. And they haven't got it already. But there was trouble of the third day of shooting. They were shooting scenes in th[…]
[…]a bit sad.VM: Yes, because John Whiting – I did another play of his subsequently, which I’ll come to in a little while – I thought he was a wonderful writer. But anyway, I had a Tennent contract; I’d had to sign one. So the next play I did was The Winter’s Tale, playing Perdita this time, with John […]
[…]nger: That's true, when I left university we had had a rather strange experience with Sir Michael Balcon at Ealing. And Freddie Shaughnessy who was a writer and came to see Black Legend which was the film about the hanging which we decided, a friend of my father said why don't you show it in London […]
