Dylan Thomas show for Prospect Playhouse
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Mr. Williams' main career was as a teacher and, for 25 years, a headmaster. Taking early retirement in 1977, he started to fully indulge a love of acting.
Like the subject of his show, Mr. Williams was born and bred in Wales. Aged 19, he joined the London's Metropolitan Police, and while he was with the police he met his first wife Melrose Eldemire from Cayman Brac, who was a nurse at Willesden General Hospital in London. They married in 1937.
Keen on drama since school, in 1976 Mr. Williams phoned the director of the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre, Richard Eyre, and got an interview. Three week later he got a part as the first senator in Shakespeare's "Othello", a part with around 30 lines. The cast included an amazing list of acting talent: Daniel Massey, Timothy West, Paul Jones, Allison Steedman and Anthony Sher.
Since then he has played a number of theatres, including the Leeds and Derby Playhouses, the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, the Victoria Theatre in Stoke and Theatr Clwyd in Wales. He has also had a number of television roles.
Mr. Williams is in Cayman visiting his son Peter and his daughter Madeline, who is a teacher at the Sunrise Training Centre.
The show starts at 7.30 pm and ticket, priced $10, will be available at the door. Proceeds are going towards Cayman Drama Society funds.
