The tenth anniversary of Alan Rickman’s death stirred a memory of when we were both jobbing actors in rep, performing in a schools’ matinee (‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death, 14 January).
The play was Gunslinger by Richard Crane, written in 1976 to celebrate the US bicentennial, and Alan had been cast as Sitting Bull. Dressed in full Native American attire, complete with sumptuously feathered headdress, his was the concluding speech of the play. It was a moving and sombre piece delivered beautifully in that rich and sonorous voice.
