more Garrick stuff – overwhelmed with sets being designed, oordinated and planned way in advance. I’m there every morning, then definitely need an afternoon nap, and now I’m there mosst evenings rehearsing It’s a wonderful life. I’m looking forward to this, though as usual people will be missing for various reasons.
A few friends have been having operations and chemo this week, so much looking after of them. I was very sad to hear of the passing of the magnificent Patricia Routledge. A dazzling career that encompassed so, so much more than Mrs bucket. I still remember her furious dishevilled queen Maragaret in richard III, and in various operas and musicals, and the sometime tragic Alan bennet Talking Heads – and then there’s Kitty of course, sadly just three clips, but every line a joke. But above all, she was enormously kind and friendly to me when I was an aSM at the very first season at the Royal Exchange where she was in many plays including the rivals and her legendary Mrs Malaprop – surely a distant realtion of Mrs Bucket, slong with Lady bracknell.
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