The Theatre
Ah, well, a subject very dear to my heart.
The theatre is where I was born again.
It's a place where I emerged from the puppy fat of my childhood into the blossoming effervescentness that you see before you now.
The theatre is really where I was born there.
I was born to be there.
And now, in my older years, I enjoy watching the theatre very much. I enjoy critiquing the other actors, the performers as they wheel through a range of characters and dance about the stage.
I recently had the pleasure of viewing a performance of the play Equus, exquisite, exquisite, a very, very talented young man in that particular production.
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Now, I would like to talk about an issue that's very disturbing to me, that of the rise of these new young generation of actors who are not classically trained.
There is a particular thorn in my side by the name of Tobias Montalban.
Now, I don't know where they dig these young people up from.
It seems that these days one only needs to find a pretty face from the masses, and then they're there on the stage.
They don't go through the rigorous, vigorous training that people of my pay degree went through.
And are we recognised for it these days?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have been reduced to watching the equivalent of prison porridge as it slops around the stage.
And I thought perhaps I might find relief in penning quality material, such a difficult thing to find, a decent script.
So I turned my quill to writing a stage play, only to find it being butchered by these young Thespians, these people who get their first taste of drama in television.
For everyone knows, actors and acting began in the theatre, and that is where it belongs.
You may take a visit to the cinema or to the radio productions, and there is merit there, certainly.
As my dear friend Lawrence Olivier once said, that is where the future lies, it lies in cinema, in the big screen, but ultimately the heart of acting belongs on the stage.
And I think these upstarts in television are disgraceful.
They have no morals, they have no sense of acting, they started these dreadful daytime soaps like Emmerdale Farm, dreadful, dreadful tripe.
Mimford is not a happy man.
I'm not, I'm not.
It pains me, it pains me to see these people.
It really does, and I'm sorry I've become rather emotional, but please just come for a moment.
Please, just a moment.
It's alright, it's alright.
