Mastodawn

I watched "The Importance of Being Oscar" a one man play written and performed by Micheál MacLiammóir.
Can't remember what prompted me.
Well worth a watch. Although the audio is a bit low.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6zbjYzf4K7o

Made in 2 x 50 min single takes on a fixed lens. Considering how cumbersome TV cameras were, and operated, moved and focused by a single person, I'm impressed by the camerawork.

The Importance of Being Oscar by Michael MacLiammoir

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Robert Belton

MacLiammóir himself is an interesting person. Effectively in an out gay relationship (they were business partners who just happened to live together!) in a very conservative and Catholic Ireland. He was also born in England with no Irish connection, and reinvented himself as Irish including a Cork childhood.
I'm sure, but on a cursory search cannot find evidence, that he held Irish citizenship. One of Ireland's great actors nevertheless.