I have admired Ronnie le Drew’s puppetry skills at Little Angel Theatre in Islington many times and have often spoken to him when he was in the audience to support the work of colleagues. This time he and I are – at the beginning of Lockdown 3 – talking, perforce, on the phone. And I realise for the first time that septuagenarian, Ronnie, has actually been doing this since he was 15 years old
“Yes” he chuckles “And it wasn’t easy to persuade my parents to allow me to leave school without doing O or A levels in order to go to Little Angel Theatre as a sort of work experience dogsbody learning on the job, as it were, from John Wright.” A South African puppeteer, Wright had set up Little Angel Theatre and established a puppet making workshop there with a
