Arts Campaign: My greatest night out

Rachelle Thackray
Sunday 01 March 1998 01:02 GMT
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FIONA SHAW

Actor

I remember when I was at drama school, in the early 1980s, seeing the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company. I used to eat up plays like puddings; I used to go all the time - half our education at RADA was going when you could. It was tremendous. Seeing Robert LePage's work coming to London, seeing his show with its mind-expanding power, is one of the great joyous necessities of cultural life.

BILL PATERSON

Actor

In the early 1960s, Ian Cuthbertson at the Glasgow Citizen's ran a 'great classics' season. Shaw, Shakespeare, Wilde, Miller, Brecht, - and if you joined the Young Cits you got in for 9d (old money)! I literally moved in and saw shows again and again. It was like being on a very long road to Damascus and was my second education. Somebody paid for that education, and I'll be forever grateful. Give us the chance to pay for it again.

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