Mr. Larkin,
What an excellent site you have made - a site such as this has been long overdue for this superb and underrated Actor - his performance in the title rle of Ibsen's 'Brand' for Theatre 59 at the Lyric, Hammersmith, was one of the finest theatre performances of the last century.

It certainly was, Jim - and you can see it - the BBC filmed it in a studio, exactly as it was on stage, and showed it on TV in 1959 - they have now released it on DVD - check it out - you always know where to buy the cheapest copy.

Brand is my second favourite play.

That's a VERY good price, Jim - I think I paid 13 (and I haven't even got a DVD player yet! - got to get a TV with a scart socket, or AV sockets, first! - I watched it on a friend's player).

'59 Theatre Company, of course, not Theatre 59, as I said above - eejot, I am, Mr. Larkin.

Yes, the lighting in productions by '59/ '69/Royal Exchange Theatre Companies was always wonderful - much of it by Michael Williams, as well as Richard Pilbrow. Not possible to create the exact lighting effects from the stage production of Brand to the TV recording, sadly.

Thank you very much for the link to the Richard Negri site - I wasn't aware of it - I expect there is a link to it which I haven't come to on your PMcG site - not having my own computer, I haven't had time to read the whole site yet.