Yvonne Mitchell/ The Writer

Yvonne Mitchell, taken during the run of 'The Same Sky' ; at the Duke of York Theatre, London, UK ; 1953 ;John Vickers / University of Bristol / ArenaPAL

Television Interviews with Yvonne Mitchell are short and far between. Yvonne appeared on programmes such as the Book Programme with Robert Robinson, sadly if not swiped, no interviews are yet to be repeated.

An episode of ‘Those British Faces’, occasionally shown on television, has in its series a documentary on Yvonne’s films, which touches on her written work. Narrated by Richard Todd, this lifts sections from Yvonne’s own book, Actress.

Luckily, we have interviews via the printed press and magazines, with the bonus of others' books where Yvonne Mitchell appears in the pages of.

It is worth tracking down a copy of Ivor Brown's series of photographic records and critical analysis for a look back at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre of 1953. Titled, 'Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1951-53,' this book contains some stunning pictures of the 1953 cast. Which included a young Robert Shaw, an author in his own right. Yvonne and Robert both share a career path of being an author, playwright and film and stage actors. 

With photography by Angus McBean, pictures inside include portraits and on-stage photographs of Yvonne Mitchell.

Her words on the page are as of her stage craft and show an understanding of what she wants to do and how to communicate with the reader; often underneath the narrative, a question is being asked. Being drawn back to reread passages of words written as expressions or descriptions are powerful, have a entrapment-like quality. This word entrapment, a negative in its envisioned understanding, this author brings a liberating nature to. 

Her words communicate in stark descriptions a establishing of boundaries set upon main characters within her books. In an act of breaking down these limitations, those within her novels come to an understanding of themselves in their actions. These are both in mind and exterior, the world they exist in. The word captivating has a broad meaning, often used as a term to describe a work that is engaging. This is true of Yvonne's novels, but the power of her writing is in her emphasis on the striving pursuit of her characters in looking for answers to the question of self-identity in a confined environment imposed on them, or self-placed. Who are we? If ever there is a really us categories classification?