TY - JOUR
AU - Cookson, George
AB - DRAMATIC NOTES member—at the Canterbury Festival. The Pil- or what used in the old days to be called a 'circuit'. This is to create and foster character, grim Players are now only one of thirty-seven theatre companies, exclusive of opera and and to preserve what is valuable in dialect. ballet, associated with the Arts Council. A The Arts Council have found—and it is only score of these are definitely travelling concerns. natural it should be so—that local audiences The still-advancing list of 'touring "reps" ', of do not by any means always want to hear and see plays of their own life. They like standard which these form the nucleus, do not in the main attempt to discover new masterpieces. plays best. Yet, when once a local theatre Sometimes, to be sure, this happens almost by begins to be alive, out of it does come now and accident. A play like The Eagle Has Two Heads then character which may delight a neigh- or Happy as Larry finds itsel f transferred to the bouring county and take a universal value. J . B. Priestley, for instance, very wisely did not West End. These 'discoveries' are pleasing and hopeful. They 
TI - Macbeth
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/7.37.27
DA - 1948-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/macbeth-zhJ3bHy31b
SP - 27
EP - 28
VL - 7
IS - 37
DP - DeepDyve
ER -