WRITERS’ BAN
No Show If Colour Bar
(N .Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, June 25 A group of leading playwrights have decided to refuse permission for their plays to be performed in theatres where there is racial discrimination, it was announced in London today.
The British Labour M.P., Mrs Barbara Castle, president of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, said at a press conference that 48 playwrights had agreed to ban their plays from colour-bar theatres.
They had instructed their agents to insert a clause in all future contracts automatically refusing performing rights in any theatre “where discrimination is made among audiences on grounds of colour,” she said.
Among the 48 playwrights are Samuel Beckett. Clemence Dane, Daphne du Maurier, Graham Greene. John Osborne, J. B. Priestley, C. P. Snow, Arnold Wesker. Angus Wilson and the American playwright, Arthur Miller.
Security. Bearded, 16stone Ruxton Hayward, aged 32. was fined £3 yesterday for parading dressed as a Tower of London Beefeater outside a souvenir shop in Trafalgar Square An 1835 Act forbids fancy dress for advertising within three miles of the statue of King Charles I in Whitehail.London, June 25.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30168, 27 June 1963, Page 17
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183WRITERS’ BAN Press, Volume CII, Issue 30168, 27 June 1963, Page 17
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