THE REPERTORY SOCIETY.
Sir, —I read with interest your critic’s report of the Repertory Society’s performance on Wednesday evening. There is one point, however, on which 1 should like a little information. In connection with the play “She was no Lady” you refer to the difficulty the characters experienced with the cockney dialect. The two main characters in the play came from Huddersfield, which, I understand, is in Yorkshire. In my school days the cockney dialect referred to the speech of Londoners. The Yorkshire dialect is something very different and is certainly not cockney. As far as my recollection. goes, some years ago the Society produced a cockney play, “Five Birds in a Cage,” the characters being real Londoners, but this is the Society’s only attempt at the cockney dialect. DIALECT.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 297, 28 September 1935, Page 4
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