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Three months later, I played another old
Shakespearian, Holofernes the schoolmaster, in an end-of-term musical
from LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. The larky prelate directed it in a week: it
was every actor for himself, this time. When we took the show to the old
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, The Sunday Times said:
I decided to go on the stage when I left Cambridge.
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In my first job, at the Belgrade
Theatre, Coventry (1961-62) we did the
lot - Shaw, Priestley,
Agatha Christie (twice), a
revue and my first
professional Shakespeare, MUCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING. As Claudio, I wore far
too much paint round the eyes - my one regret about missing drama school
is that I've never really understood stage make-up.
At Ipswich (1962-63) I returned to
HENRY V. The cast
was small and there were too few friends to urge unto the breach. To
disguise this, those soldiers we had, crouched in front of the tiny
stage and, in the dark, I whispered the final battle instructions, as if
the whole audience were my band of brothers. I think they heard alright.
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