Old Vic Tour in Doubt
The Australian tour of Sir Laurence Olivier and the Old Vic company next year may be cancelled if Australian theatrical managements do not arrange employment for local performers as stipulated by Australian Actors' Equity, the union to which most stage employees belong. If the Olivier company should play in any of the existing legitimate theatres, it is expected that Equity will demand:—(l) That 75 per cent, of the principal players in the performances shall be Australians, or (2) that the theatre managements concerned shall find full alternative employment for the Australian players automatically displaced during the season of the Old Vic company. The Equity general secretary, Mr. H. Alexander, has stated that if the matter came to a head he did not. think that Sir Laurence Olivier and the Old Vic company would come to Australia. "We have already exchanged a good deal of correspondence with British Actors' Equity on the subject,’’ he said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 December 1947, Page 6
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