Play-acting and Play-suffering'
Frances Mackenzie
The amateur dramatic movement has never been more popular throughout the country, and acting for the love of acting and not for the sake of material reward has never been on a higher level. Everywhere, in big towns, small towns, and tiny country villages, men and women, youths and girls, turn out after their day's work to rehearse, perhaps, in a draughty hall, to try to remember the words they have repeated to themselves over and over again, in bus or on bicycle or in bed, to get into the skin of the part they have been cast for, to make believe.
This talk is by Frances Mackenzie, who is Organising Director of Drama Schools for the British Drama League and who must be as familiar with town and village drama as anyone in the country.