Here's to the boys
I consider it a great honour to be chairman of the actors Centre in Covent Garden, and from the moment I took up the post, I promised myself, and the team in the building that I would not be a chairman who was in any way inactive. Some people probably find me a nuisance and an irritation, some like the fact that I'm around. Whatever the thought, I'm determined that during my time in the role, The Actors Centre will increase its profile, and the role it has to play in the lives of so many working actors today. Primarily I consider this to be of most value to those who are just about to graduate, or those who are in the first few years after graduating, from drama school. This is the time in which you try and find a pattern that will help you through life. A way of combining your first love, acting, with whatever else it is you will do that will support you, as you make the transition from eager hopeful into working actor. Some of these graduates will turn into stars, w