Will W aspe
Fifteen-year-old Yorkshire lad Kevin Moreton, who is playing in Runaway at London's Royal Court Theatre, plainly has much to learn of theatrical tact — and it was, Waspe thought, rather wicked of Helen Dawson of the Observer to take advantage of his innocence and print his candid comment on why he took the part. "My agent," he is quoted as saying, "was all for me having a bash. He told me they don't do very good plays at the Royal Court, but once you've been there you either go up or down." That's one agent who won't be getting the warmest of greetings next time he comes to push his clients in Sloane Square.
Her own gni Linda Thorson (successor to Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg as The Avengers girl) has gone into the theatrical management business. Her Thor Productions will put on a lunchtime show next week at the new Regent Theatre (formerly the Cameo-Poly). Starring — if you haven't guessed — Linda Thorson.
Break-up
Though maintaining a relatively cordial relationship with the new regime, the deposed director of the National Theatre, Lord Olivier, cannot be finding it an agreeable experience to watch the dismemberment of the company he had himself collected — and watch it he must, for he is directing rehearsals of next month's new production, Eden End. By the time that takes the stage only a handful of Olivier's players — notably his wife, Joan Plowright, and Denis Quilley, Ben Whitrow and Gawn Grainger — will have survived.
Some of those whose services have been dispensed with are having trouble finding alternative employment. Few are as lucky as Louise Purnell, already fixed up in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Shaw, and Constance Cummings, who is in the next production at the Mermaid. and Anna Carteret, who has a part in The Poill.sers for BBC-TV.
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