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Post by Jan on Nov 3, 2020 13:33:10 GMT
I see John Sessions has died. He was quite brilliant at comic improvisation. I always thought he should get a lot more stage work than he did. I saw him in the 80s in "The Alchemist" and "Man Equals Man" and as recently as 2013 in "Longing" at Hampstead.
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Post by n1david on Nov 3, 2020 13:51:13 GMT
He was a great performer, very adaptable. IIRC he was in the original cast of "My Night with Reg" - he was certainly in the West End transfer and subsequent TV adaptation. When I first came to London I went to some of the recordings of Whose Line is it Anyway - at that time they were filmed in studios in the remote and desolate place known as Canary Wharf - and he was, it appeared, effortlessly funny throughout the whole recording, compared to others who were definitely "on" for the cameras and very much "off" at other times.
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Post by Jan on Nov 3, 2020 14:33:39 GMT
Just reading the obituaries I remember now that his tour de force one-man show “The Life of Napoleon” where he played fifty different characters was greatly praised in 1989. I did not see it - did anyone here ?
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