Mrs Pat
By: Pam Gems
Series: Oberon modern plays
Publisher: Oberon; Oberon Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9781840026696
Subjects: Campbell, Patrick, -- Mrs., -- 1865-1940 -- Drama
Genres: Drama
Description: "So you think the actor makes no contribution beyond that of a puppet for six nihts a week and two mantinee's. Do you, Mr. - ah - rewrite your play every day to suit the audience out ther? Be so good as not to treat us as automata, we are more in touch with reality than most - we and the doctors and nurses and clergymen who are confronted by the heart of it daily. Why are actors so dismissed? Is the surgeon harassed when he loses a patient, the lawyer booed when the case goes against him? In all other professions maturity confers status, security, respect. Why, I ask myself, why the rancour against us? Perhaps it is because we promise more than rubies - food fo the imaginatio."