by Georg Büchner, directed by Nick Hamm, at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill.
How it came about that I met with director Nick Hamm I can’t recall. I do remember the meeting, which took place in the Prince Albert pub, a room above which comprised the Gate Theatre, which had been founded the year before by Lou Stein, whom I also met that day. Somehow I got the job, which was an interesting one. The play, by Georg Büchner, while not unknown in the UK, was a rarity compared to the more familiar Woyzeck, which I had run across at university. My contribution to Nick’s production consisted of madrigals, for some reason, which were sung, in Italian, by an excellent company of actors. Nick and I presumably got along ok — at least, I have no recollection to the contrary — but we didn’t really click, and never worked together again.
