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Theatre

Lyric Theatre’s Dick Whittington is the opposite of festive garbage

8 December 2018

9:00 AM

8 December 2018

9:00 AM

One of the biggest stars of the 1970s was the professional lard-bucket Mick McManus, who plied his trade as an all-in wrestler. The sport was televised to millions. The parents of the playwright Michael McManus must have calculated that by giving their child the same name as ‘The Dulwich Destroyer’ they would subtly galvanise his intellectual ambitions.

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