Description: BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH** SIGNED BY **AURIOL SMITHENGLISH ACTRESS & THEATRE DIRECTORDate: 1990sSize: 5.5" x 3.5"Auriol Smith (b.1936) is an English actress and theatre director. She was a founder member and associate director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. She co-founded the theatre in 1971 with her husband Sam Walters, who became the United Kingdom's longest-serving artistic director. Walters and Smith stepped down from their posts at the Orange Tree Theatre in June 2014.Whilst taking a degree in drama at Bristol University she became President of the Green Room Society at the newly founded university Drama Department. This was followed by a year in America as a Fulbright Scholar, before making her professional debut at the Hampstead Theatre Club in January 1960 in Harold Pinter's first play The Room (which she had originally played in a converted squash-court for the Bristol Drama Department in May 1957).After extensive experience in repertory theatres and a year in Jamaica setting up a drama school and theatre, she and her husband Sam Walters co-founded the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London in 1971, where she played many classic and modern parts. "We enjoyed doing small-scale productions in Jamaica, and hoped that eventually we'd run that kind of theatre in England. Then, when we returned in 1971, we decided that now was the time and Richmond (where we lived) was the place." (Auriol Smith in conversation with Marsha Hanlon for the Orange Tree Appeal brochure, 1991).She worked extensively on radio including Pinter's 1960 radio version of his sixty-minute play The Room for the BBC Third Programme. For ten years she presented Listen with Mother on BBC Radio 4 and was a long-serving member of the Radio Drama Company. Her BBC radio credits include Alan Bennett's Forty Years On, the role of a tipsy summer partygoer in Ellen Dryden's romantic comedy Forgetting Rosalind (a FirstWrites production for the BBC), and East of the Sun by Carey Harrison.For Naxos, Smith recorded the roles of Alice in Henry V with Samuel West, and the Duchess of York in Richard III with Kenneth Branagh. She has also acted on television in Kavanagh QC, One Foot in the Grave, Peak Practice and Doctors, among others.**************************************************************************All items are promptly posted out in secure board-backed envelopes and we always combine postage on multiple purchases BIBLIO HISTORIA * AUTOGRAPHS * BOOKS & EPHEMERA * POSTAL COVERS * POSTCARDS * Visit our ebay shop to see our full range of rare and interesting items New items are added most days! ** THANK YOU FOR LOOKING ** ************************************************************************** Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter
Price: 18.95 GBP
Location: Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
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Sub-Type: Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
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