That was great back in the 80s, he said, "when everything was repping where you're from".
The Spanish directors of the BE festival, Isla Aguilar and Miguel Oyarzun, are backstage at Birmingham Rep, where this year's event is taking place.
By her 17th birthday she was working as an assistant stage manager at Coventry Rep, where she also became involved in publicity, theatre administration and acting.
As a young actress, Dench loved being in rep, where you could "make mistakes, and have a go at playing some terribly old person when you were 23.
She had worked briefly, soon after leaving school, with the director Clifford Williams at Canterbury Rep, where Marian was in the company.
He spent several years in provincial rep, where he was not quite a glamorous juvenile lead but too interesting to play heroes' best friend parts.
Sometime this summer I received in the mail a pair of shorts from the Berkeley Rep, where the play originated, and a plastic knife and fork.
Hehehe!" Sure enough Cribbins successfully combined variety with the rep, where he met his future wife, Gill, who was working as an assistant stage manager.
I was exposed to the world repertory at Barry Jackson's Birmingham Rep, where I also watched the play-by-play growth of young actors such as Albert Finney and Derek Jacobi.
So why Daniel Aukin, the artistic director of SoHo Rep, where the play is now ensconced, decided to take it out of mothballs is a worthwhile question, though it won't be answered here.
