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Article: If you'd heard what I heard in the Green Room
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- February 10, 2009
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Green Rooms are by no means always green. But they are so called
because the first one might have been; at least the first one having
a mention in literature. It was by Colley Cibber, the English comic
actor, dramatist and theatre manager. In one of his plays, written
at the end of the 17th century, he remarks that "I do know London
pretty well, and the side-box, Sir, and behind the scenes, ay, and
the Green Room and all the girls and women-actresses there ..."
If walls had ears, Green Rooms could tell a tale or two. Now we
find that apparently - on occasion - they do, as Carol Thatcher has
learned to her cost. The ridiculously over-inflated affair of the
golliwog has been done to death and ...