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‘The really interesting thing about the history of any play, is the astonishing remarks and rejections which it receives before it goes on. The only plays which get unanimous praise and which get on with the greatest ease, are those that sink like stones’.

I’ve just finished reading the section covering the letters she wrote to Alan Ayckbourn (the book is arranged alphabetically with whom she corresponded) and having spent much of her early years in South Africa she doesn’t hold back from giving her opinion when he is approached on more than one occasion to let his plays be staged there.