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Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw - Lentulus

- Rendcomb College junior play. Directed by David Sells.

Spring 1970, and my first real 'public' performance, a smallish part in George Bernard Shaw's light comedy set in ancient Rome. It was a good choice for a junior play - Shaw's inevitable moralising is over rather sooner than in a lot of his works, and David Sells kept the piece moving along swiftly, very wisely in view of the youthfullness of the cast and the likely tolerance level of the select audience of proud parents and fellow pupils.

Although there were only two performances, I really enjoyed myself in this, picked up a first good review(!) and, having discovered that this was something at which I could perhaps excel, got severely bitten by the acting bug...

...plus I looked better in a toga than many of the other cast members...ahem!

"Jonathan Dixon as the effete Lentulus nearly stole the show."