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.
Lord Chamberlain`s readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
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.
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.
