The other outstanding player at the Altrincham Garrick in my time was William (Bill) Toothill. He was superb as Crocker-Harris in Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version – a tale of a schoolmaster who becomes known to the boys as ‘The…
Amateur versus professional... What’s the difference? It’s just the range of talent, really. At an amateur show you can watch an actor as good as you’ll see anywhere, but he or she will be on stage with a fellow-thesp who…