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Culture: Prompt response to a star lost for words Amateur Stage.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20021030
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Byline: John Slim

My recent note about the loudest prompt I had ever heard - at an open-air performance in the grounds of the now-threatened Swan Theatre at Worcester - has brought me word from Barry Lankester, formerly with the BBC in the Midlands.

In the late 1950s, when drama was televised live in black-and-white from Gosta Green, Barry was floor manager and in charge of the script for a John Galsworthy play starring Geoffrey Keane and Lawrence Payne.

He told me: 'There was a sequence where Geoffrey Keane read a letter, then threw it on to the fire - but the fire ...

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