Author Campbell Armstrong

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Strangely, I have never seen it on stage. I have never heard the lines read. Due to circumstances of timing and distance, I was never able to attend a single performance of the play, which is called "And They Used to Star in Movies," is about the later careers of three famous "child" actors (in a broad manner of speaking).

Now it is finally being staged at a location where I can see it – Dublin, dear old Dublin, at Bewley’s in Grafton Street, as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. I’m excited – and scared. It’s like an old pen-friend I’m meeting for the first time, and yet somehow I know this person intimately.

Or I want to believe I do.

Will the play be something like the thing I first saw in my head? But so many years later I can’t remember what it was that inspired it – a cartoon, a childhood wonderment, idle speculation about what became of these childhood "actors"? I don’t recall. It’s a bit of a mystery to me.

Directed by Alan King, it opens September 12, and runs for four weeks. I wish it great health.

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