A dramatic 2 hour meeting of the Polish Stage Company and the Polish Centre POSK in Hammersmith over access to the use of the theatre. I had been acting as a kind of spokesman for the Stage Company and liaison with POSK, as I was also a member of the POSK Council. The Stage Company are wonderful people and their overall unofficial spokesman and leader is theatre director Helena Kaut Howson, an extraordinary gifted lady, singleminded in her pursuit of perfection, incapable of talking less than half an hour on any topic and completely insensitive to people who in her mind do not share her highbrow tastes. She is a nightmare in all her negotiations with POSK, who are somehow trying to fit her in with other regular and occasional users of the theatre facilities in POSK.
Anyway after two hours she managed to obtain the five weekend appearances for free at the theatre and three Sunday productions in the underground Jazz Cafe. Any extra performances would lead to them sharing their income with POSK fifty fifty for those extra perfromances. I had set the scene for the original compromise and prepared a draft contract. Now POSK needs to prepare the contract and get Helena to sign it. If it happens I will consider that one of my most important achievements in the last few years.
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