BOOK REVIEW: Facing the Fear, by Bella Merlin
Stage fright " both the dread and the actuality of it " looms very large in the lives of many, if not most, actors. And occasionally it becomes headline news. Remember Stephen Fry and Cell Mates or, more recently, Lenny Henry in Educating Rita at Chichester last year? And it was probably stage fright that lay at the base of Laurence Fox's recent angry outburst in The Patriotic Traitor at the Park Theatre. That's the …