By Timberlake Wertenbaker
The Lost Theatre was converted from an old gym in the basement of
a Methodist church on the Fulham Road. It was pioneered by an eccentric
old character named Cecil Hayter. The place was a tip, dirty, impoverished,
completely unorganised and fantastically unique for young actors
in London. There was an old photograph hanging crooked on the peeling
office wall of a young Ralph Fiennes playing Romeo in that same
theatre years before. I was given a part as Doctor Einstein in a
production of Arsenic and Old Lace, played Cannon Throbbing
in Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus and went with the
company to the Edinburgh Festival in 1993 playing Claudio in Much
Ado About Nothing. It was at this theatre that I made my directorial
debut with a production of The Love of the Nightingale
by Timberlake Wertenbaker. The theatre has since been demolished
to give way to a shopping centre.
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