 Blakemore and Hall's rivalry was dramatised when Blakemore presented a formal manifesto to the committee recommending reform.The committee refused to discuss the manifesto and Blakemore was eventually forced to resign when his salary was stopped without warning or explanation.His other productions included "Tyger" by Adrian Mitchell, co-directed with John Dexter (1971), "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (1972), "Macbeth" (1972), "The Cherry Orchard" (translated by Ronald Hingley, 1973), "Grand Manoeuvres" (1974), "Engaged" by W. S. Gilbert (1975), and "Plunder" by Ben Travers (1976).