ENGLISH ACTORS
‘‘BADLY TRAINED” (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 11. “I consider the large majority of English actors artistically degenerate, mainly because they have been badly trained and educated,” said Mr. Frederick Farley, who has arrived from London to be the producer for the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society. “Their minds are intellectual deserts and anything savouring of ‘art’ is suspect with them,” he continued. “They have very little intellectual, _ artistic, or cultural background and without it they cannot aspire to the full heights of their profession.” Mr. Farley said that the English actor could be charged with lack of standards, lack of faith, and lack of a real vocation, and even if he had these he would always have to contend with the “jungle-like” system of the English theatre, where everybody was at each other’s throats and where an actor to survive must take care of himself firsts last, and all tire time.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22584, 12 March 1948, Page 5
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