Panto was my chance to perform somewhere other than on the sideboard as a child. I’d be on the edge of my seat when they said, “Are there any little children in the audience?”
I still have a school exercise book where I wrote what I wanted to be when I grew up. It went: a) air hostess b) dress designer and c) actress. But as soon as everybody started applying for university, I’d done the musical festivals and elocution lessons and, in 1965, Lamda accepted me.
