Questors, Jesters and Renegades: The Story of Britain’s Amateur Theatre
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When I started out as a theatre critic in the early 1970s, I was often despatched to student and amateur performances. In those far off days before the sprouting of fringe and studio venues all over the country, there was space, time and leisure on the broadsheets to report on such events as the New Plays festival at the Questors in Ealing, European classics and musicals at the Tower in Canonbury, the annual Greek play (performed in Greek) at Bradfield College, the major university productions at the OUDS in Oxford and the Marlowe Society in Cambridge, the Mystery Plays in York (where a sixteen-year-old Judi Dench once played the Virgin Mary) as well as the National Youth Theatre and final year shows at the Guildhall School or RADA.
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Am-DramAmateursBangor Drama ClubHalifax PlayhouseMaddermarket TheatreMark HarandonMichael CoveneyMinackTheatreTower Theatre
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