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  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Dec 13, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 30


During lengthy rehearsals in an experimental Oedipus the King, the director urged the cast to think of the single most terrifying thing they could .imagine.  Each in turn share their moment of horror.  But when it came to John Gielgud, he said simply: "We open the day after tomorrow."

Simon Williams, The Daily Telegraph, November 6th 2013

 
 
 

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