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Mongolia is a landlocked country sandwiched between Russia and China. Maureen Paton travels there to preview a revival of a 1998 play, The Mongol Khan, in advance of its West End premiere. ....
Share 1932: I grew up a very shy child – I’m about two here – who started informal acting classes at six in Montreal, which taught me about speaking lines. That led to local radio work, and I’ve not stopped since. My father Joseph was a clothing manufacturer who was not pleased by my theatrical stuff and wanted me to be a businessman, but my mother Anne taught elocution and wanted to be an actress 1947: Many of my teenage summers were spent by a lake in the Laurentian Mountains near Montreal. I studied economics at university, but was a terrible student as I was constantly acting in plays. My first proper job was as understudy to Christopher Plummer in Henry VI. When he got ill one day I blundered my way through – I’d had no rehearsal time ....
Share 1948: Here I am aged four with my brother Harry, seven, at home in Salford. As he was on the autism spectrum Harry was very clever but unable to see things from others’ point of view. I was more sociable, took part in school plays, and later dropped out of a law course to act. Harry went on to design air-traffic control systems. He’s an atheist but after seeing me play Jesus he said, ‘Makes you think, doesn’t it?’ 1974: Crosses keep cropping up in my career. I’m on a giant one here as composer Gustav Mahler with Antonia Ellis as fellow composer Richard Wagner’s wife, in a fantasy sequence from Ken Russell’s film Mahler. Ken was seen as difficult but I adored him. Another scene had Mahler, who was Jewish, imagining he was forced to eat a pig – it was really made of marzipan ....
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