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Down Memory Lane: Fire has been a common theme in the theatrical history of Inverness By Contributor Published: 15:30, 13 March 2021
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Bill McAllister looks at the Highland capital s fiery relationship with the world of theatre.
Moray House, the dark-bricked 1960s building in Bank Street, stands on the spot which once accommodated the significantly more handsome Theatre Royal until it was burned down 90 years ago next week.
Will Fyffe, at the time one of Britainâs highest-paid music hall performers, was topping the bill the evening the theatre went ablaze on March 16, 1931.
Last house for the Regent In Amersham-on-the-Hill, 59 years ago this week, 100s of people could be seen queueing down Sycamore Road. They were waiting in line for the Regent box office to buy tickets for the Audrey Hepburn film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Although a popular movie, the high demand for tickets was because the final show, on Saturday 10 March 1962, was to be the last ever screening at the cinema and everyone in the town wanted to be there. The fate of the cinema had been sealed the previous year when Amersham Council sanctioned the application by British Land for its change of use. The owners of the Regent, Shipman & King, held only a lease on the premises and this had now expired.
How Peter O Toole was struck by the curse of Macbeth
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6 March 2021 • 3:44pm Is this a disaster I see before me? : Peter O Toole as Macbeth, 1980
Credit: Lesly HAMILTON/Gamma-Rapho
The critic Sheridan Morley once described leaving the Old Vic at the end of its 1980 Macbeth and overhearing two audience members on their way out. “One of them turned to his friend and said: ‘Well all I hope now is that the dog has not been sick in the car.’ I thought that was the best review of that production I’d ever heard.”