The last time I spoke to Colin Friels, he swore blind he was giving up the business of stage acting. It was, he said – and this was back in 2013 – “dog’s work”.
He was 61 at the time and rehearsing a play called Moving Parts at NIDA. A few months before, he’d won a Helpmann award for playing Willy Loman in Belvoir’s Death of a Salesman. I interviewed him just before that, too – and that, he told me, would definitely be his last time on stage.
