At the end of our two-year acting course at RADA we were all promised one public performance to market our talents. There were ninety eligible students in my cohort. Only forty-five got parts. Of those, only fifteen were worth playing. At the age of nineteen, I was cast to play a man of sixty-five. It was an excellent part (Reedbeck in Venus Observed), but…
The student Public Show was presented at the Phoenix Theatre and, to my amazement, I received this letter from Felix Aylmer, shortly after.
