Stafford-Clark diary, Polly Teale’s wishes
Polly Teale of Shared Experience, if she had a lot of money would:
“Build inspiring buildings…
plant lots of trees and make magnificent public spaces…
fund arts centres and galleries and theatres so that they became the hub of our communities, instead of the shopping mall and the retail park. I would make it possible for everyone, of all ages, to see, make and learn from drama in its many incarnations. As for prisons, I would make them places of rehabilitation by using drama to open up possibilities of communication and expression….”
And buy a Paula Rego.
Also Max Stafford-Clark’s diary of Macbeth in Nigeria which contains this exchange:
“The beach opposite the hotel is a toilet littered with plastic. Why is it not an asset like it would be in the Caribbean?”
“We are not a sunbathing people,” cries Adura (Gentlewoman and Third Witch) passionately. She is Nigerian.
“What shall happen to the corrupt?”
“Kill them all,” giggles one of the Nigerian guests.
“That’s what [former president of Ghana] Jerry Rawlings did – invite them to lunch and kill them all.”
They make it clear how hard it is to live in a corrupt society and to resist corruption. …
Max wins a brownie point with me as he replies to letters sent to him by young aspiring writers (or at least he did to me) and many others I never heard a word from.
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About me
I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.
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Recent Work
Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).
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Nakamitsu
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Yellow Gentlemen
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