Actor Critical Of Theatre In Britain

Northern Advocate, 11 March 1948, Page 4

Actor Critical Of Theatre In Britain

CHRISTCHURCH, Thu. < P.A.) —“I consider that the large majority of English actors are artistically degenerate, mainly because they have bevi badly trained and educated,' said Mr Frederick Farley, who has arrived from London to be 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 the English act*' could be charged with a lack of standards. lack of faith and lack of 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 firs,, last and all the time.