He auditioned in 1968 for a production of Alan Bennett's new play, Forty Years On, which featured John Gielgud as the headmaster of a British public school during the First World War period.
1968 sprach er für eine Rolle in Alan Bennetts damals neuen Stück Forty Years On vor, in dem John Gielgud den Rektor einer britischen Public School zu Zeiten des Ersten Weltkriegs mimte.