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Home page APPEAL The operas and other works Green Branch productions Photographs Samples from the scores Listen to extracts Sitemap of this site Links to other sites Contact details	Upstage Downstage by Tim Porter Author's note This play results from a great love of the theatre, and of public libraries! My work has led me to spend much time in both, and it is hard to say of which the old cliche is truer: "all human life is there". Certainly, most of the characters and situations in "Upstage Downstage" are based on real life; nonetheless, it would be going to far to say that people will recognise themselves! One feature of the show is entirely imaginary - T.H.A.T.'s - the theatre club in terminal decline. For the amateur theatre as a whole I must confess an undying admiration; I would not care to grapple with some of Mr Askew's problems. And the transformation involved has a legendary magic: behind the library counter all day, but Queen Guinevere all night! In case a song in Act II should puzzle you, Thespis (so the Reference Section assures me) lived in the 6th century BC, and is variously labelled "the father of Greek drama" and "the first actor". He has become something of a mascot - theatre's equivalent of St. Cecilia - so it is rather a surprise to discover that he really did exist. Tim Porter Back to Operas
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