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Dateline: 1st April, 2005
O'Toole Attacks British Theatre "I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV," 72 year old actor Peter O'Toole has told the Radio Times. Modern theatre, he says is "badly done shit" performed by "smart-aleck twats" but he is particularly scathing about the subsidised sector. The RSC and the Old Vic, he said, were where the best actors did their best work. Not today: "That was their remit - not whether a third-rate biddable arsehole could do 39 productions of As You Like It upside down with red noses. The bulbous state-run theatre provides a healthy living for smart-aleck twats." The "so-called 'renaissance' at the Royal Court" he describes as "bollocks". Things have got so bad, he said, that promising young actors don't wnat to be involved in theatre. "There are always promising young actors," he went on, "and today the sensible ones fuck off from what calls itself 'the theatre' as soon as they can because it's such badly done shit. Do you feel you can hop on a bus to the West End to see the likes of Paul Scofield, Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier?" Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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