Theatre
Theatre being his first 'love', he is a noted farceur and has won Best Actor awards for his appearances in Ray Cooney farces Not Now Darling; Two Into One and Out of Order. Other memorable productions have been leading performances in There's a Girl in My Soup; An Enemy of the People; Major Barbara; The Scarlet Pimpernel; That Good Night and Quartet.
He was also a leading figure in the fight to launch the Theatre Museum in London's Covent Garden in the 1980s.
In 2007, Sinden embarked on a UK and European theatre tour to talk about his life, work and anecdotes in An Evening with... Sir Donald Sinden. Produced by his son Marc this included, on 8 November 2007 (as part of Marc's British Theatre Season in Monaco) a performance in front of HSH Prince Albert of Monaco (the son of Grace Kelly, his co-star in Mogambo) at the Théâtre Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”
—Enid Bagnold (1889–1981)
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.””
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)