As president of the drama club and star of every school show, Desmond Channing spent most of his short life in the spotlight.
The decade might be set in history as ‘Swinging’, but for many of us who lived through the ‘60’s the appellation has only a marginal connection with the realities of life.
There are no three words more calculated to make a critic’s heart sink than Amateur Operatic Society. So I approached Imperial Productions' staging of ‘Damn Yankees’ with a certain amount of trepidation...