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Alan Richardson
Alan was the proverbial scruffy English actor who grew up in
a small village where his early acting experiences with the
local troupe included performances in barns and churches. By
the time he made it to our side of the great pond (and our side
of the Mississippi, for that matter) he had appeared in Royal
Hunt of the Sun, The Beggar’s Opera, The Crucible, and
a production of The Oresteia, where he played the Watchman.
We took him on for our own Oresteia, bumping him up into the
more critical part of Agamemnon, for which he received some
compliments from Gene Armstrong in the Arizona Daily Star. A
nice, mild-mannered English guy, Alan was an enthusiastic bell-ringer
who never missed cast party and didn’t seem to mind hanging
around a fairly young cast. He came at a moment of transition
for me, when I first started to work with actors beyond their
teens and twenties and looking back, if I wasn’t always
as professional as I could have been Alan was certainly part
of the process that helped me get there. Also, he loaned me
a drum to beat during the processional in the play, which was
very much appreciated as at the time I had no drums of my own,
and still don’t.
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