An all time great. Dotrice's
performance won him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the
greatest number of solo performances, which totalled 1,782.
Many years back I saw him in a live performance as the 17th-century gossipmonger and diarist John Aubrey in Brief Lives. A tour de force. Always remember at interval the curtain never fell, he simply feigned sleep on stage to wake up 15 mins later to continue his lengthy monologue.
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