"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

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"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."

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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."

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Time

"I'm reluctant to use the word class so much."

Class

"Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres."

Life

"I don't believe in right-angled turning points."

Right

"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."

Audience

"There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way."

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"Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in."

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"Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could."

People

"The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them."

People

"The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else."

Car