School for Players
N a brief talk from 4YA one morning recently, Rilla Stephens created | for us the atmosphere of the Old Vic Theatre School. It cannot be easy to | communicate a way of learning so far | out of the ordinary listener’s experience, but Rilla Stephens never lost the wood for the trees, guiding us animatedly | down clearly distinguished paths, pointing out this aspect and that, until we began to have some conception of what it was al] about. Rilla Stephens had the imagination to base her talk on an assumption of our lack of knowledge, and the modesty which could enlighten us without condescension. But most atttactive to me was her total absence of pose; to her, theatre seemed to be a job, a hard though rewarding job. From memory, I am almost sure she did not mention the word "art" once. Which was all to the goods to my mind.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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153School for Players New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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