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Everyone’s talent should be exercised for the good of the whole of society, because [w]hat we cannot buy is the spirit of originality and endeavour which makes a people dynamic and creative.

— Esi Sutherland-Addy

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The Drama Studio came as a sudden answer to a problem I had been having, starting the theatre programme.

You will have a way which you would need to design the thing, you get to a climax and you need to stay up there and let people go home with that feeling of patriotism and so on.

I want to be able to look up as I walk and see dignity in the place of my birth. All of us should want that.

Suddenly in 1951 I started…creative writing seriously.

I suddenly saw …[w]e needed a programme to develop playwriting and…that led to… the Ghana Experimental Theatre.

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