Reply To: Treading the boards.

My first play at the Grange was playing Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. My last play was as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in 2004. In those intervening 15 years I appeared in a total of 21 productions, and wore many more wigs than I would care to admit to in public. I made many friends, some of whom I am lucky enough to still be able to spend time with today. I played baddies (Romeo and Juliet, and The Gingerbread Lady), romantic leads (Butterflies Are Free, Wuthering Heights), spoilt brats (Hay Fever – twice) but mostly bemused blokes who just happened to be in the wrong place, at the right time (See How They Run, Barefoot In the Park, The Darling Buds of May, The Barretts of Wimpole Street). I truly loved the Grange, and had the most wonderful time there. Life moves on, and things change, but those memories are as vivid today as they ever were. Now then, talking of wigs…