theatres
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Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
I have always been a laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laughter to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
On some rare occasions I do go to cinema theatres abroad. But if you really ask me I would rather watch a film on DVD all alone in the dark environs of my car or my home.
When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training.