A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
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There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.Timothy West
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.
Timothy West
Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.
Timothy West
Plays that had been done in the West End were available for production purposes by repertory. They were mostly light comedies and a lot of thrillers.
Timothy West
People gradually became more in need of plays, which showed life as it actually was, rather than life as you would like it to be.
Timothy West
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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