Posted on 17/05/08
How an understudy became an actor
Within weeks of arriving in Stratford I was playing a small role in Henry V, starring Christopher Plummer.
Chris Plummer and I are about the same age, but rather than going to college he had started working in the theatre and was probably
the leading young actor in Canada. In Henry V, I was assigned the role of the Duke of Gloucester, for which I was on stage f
or about five minutes, as well as understudying Plummer.
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