Christopher Fildes

Forget about heritage, that’s been done — unless it’s a West End theatre

Forget about heritage, that’s been done — unless it’s a West End theatre

issue 11 December 2004

Archie Rice urged his audience not to applaud too loudly: ‘It’s an old house. A very old house.’ This may explain why The Entertainer (Archie in the lead) has not been revived in the West End. Too warm a reception might make the theatre fall down. Now all these fragile old houses have found an unlikely friend in Tessa Jowell, who wants to pull £125 million out of the proceeds of the National Lottery to keep them going.

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