Professional Theatre
Sir.—-Mr Betts says the “terrible tangle of ideas” emerging from the panel discussion leaves one with a feeling of hopelessness on the future of professional theatre in New Zealand—mainly in the absence of a firm scheme. We heard that Mr Campion and another person (nameless) are in England making arrangements with actors. Mr Campion has already surveyed the New Zealand scene as far as Christchurch. This all involves public money and the public have a right to know how it is being spent. As a touring member of the New Zealand Players for some months, I can assure Mr Griffith that even with the £23,000 theatre subsidy the Players would have collapsed because of waste at top-level administration and travel. Any national tour would be doomed under the same conditions. Regional theatre with proper control of expenditure could survive. Would opera and ballet flourish without the help of subsidising firms? —Yours, etc., DAPHNE MILBURN. October 14, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30882, 15 October 1965, Page 16
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