Your recent obituary on Gayle Hunnicutt (5 September) was comprehensive, especially regarding her stage plays when living in Britain. However, one role that seems to have been missed was that in Twelfth Night at the Greenwich theatre in the 1970s. Gayle was playing Olivia opposite Max Wall. Shakespeare did not suit Max as well as the plays of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and John Osborne. One night Max forgot his lines when greeting Olivia back on stage, so he improvised with, “Ello Olivia!”
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