IN FONDEST MEMORYPatrick Bacon and Dennis Estop (d.1997) |
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Two links with Tin Hut days have been severed by the deaths of Dennis Estop and Patrick Bacon. Dennis, who died in February [1997], aged 77 had been a Questor for some 45 years and was a much-loved personality. He was one of those stalwarts always there, especially when the Theatre was being built in the fifties and sixties. Dennis joined the Student Group in the early fifties and appeared in a number of plays. He has a niche in our Hall of Fame as featuring in a photograph in The Art of Coarse Acting, playing a lunatic asylum attendant in my production of SWEENEY TODD (1964). Patrick Bacon, whose death was announced at the AGM, appeared in many plays from the early sixties, one of his best performances being as the lawyer in Anouilh's TRAVELLERS WITHOUT LUGGAGE in 1963, when all plays were in the studio owing to imminent demolition of the Tin Hut. Also in the cast were Kit Emmet and Robin Ingram (then aged 12!) Some years ago he moved to Norfolk, but kept his interest to the end and would drive up to visit the Questors even though into his eighties. Michael Green [Questopics 419, April 1997] |
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Patrick Bacon at The Questors |
Dennis Estop at The Questors 1952 The Anniversary 1952 Deirdre 1955 The World's Wonder 1957 Ten Nights in a Bar-Room 1958 Maria Marten or The Murder in The Red Barn 1959 The Drunkard 1960 The Ticket of Leave Mane 1961 Lady Audley's Secret 1961 The Lady of Larkspur Lotion 1961 The Love of Don Perlimplin 1961 Portrait of a Madonna 1961 The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet 1962 Bulldog Drummond 1964 Sweeney Todd 1965 The Silver King 1967 An Italian Straw Hat 1968 The Shaughraun 1993 Trelawny of the Wells |
