Warning To Actors
WAS interested in "The English Theatre; Miracles and Moralities," a BBC programme from 4YA. With a few words of reminiscénce, supposedly by
one who had taken part in early performances at the end of the 14th Century, we were plunged into a marketplace among the crowd who witnessed
such plays. Wisely the writer of this episode made his Crowd the same sort of gathering we might expect to-day, for human nature changes little, and the lure of a spectacle was the same five centuries ago as it is nowadays-except that we have grown a little too sophisticated to enjoy the rhyming couplets of doggerel and the antics of the workmenactors. They had something, however, that modern entertainment lacks-they were entertainment of the people, by the people, for the people. And one feature of their presentation might well be incorporated, with advantage, in modern theatrical productions-the fact that being under the patronage of the town officials, actors who put on a dud performance or forgot their lines were pun-_ ished for the offence.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 13
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175Warning To Actors New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 13
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