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NEXT weekend, there is the chance to walk quite literally in the footsteps of a showbiz giant. Because, at his most corpulent, actor and theatre impresario Stephen Kemble weighed 30 stone, and he was famed the length and indeed width of the country for being able to play Shakespeare’s most rotund character, Sir John Falstaff, without any padding. He made his name in London, but came north to manage a circuit of theatres based around Durham and Newcastle, but stretching as far north as Aberdeen, and including for a season the tent theatre in Darlington. Indeed, after that season, he was tempted back to Drury Lane in London to reprise his most famous, and gargantuan role. A poem on the poster advertising his return explained:

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