Jeff Kirwan

 We wrapped up Day 2 of rehearsals this evening with another readthrough and a bit of table table work. It's incredible how different things felt and sounded tonight on just our second readthrough. I take that as a good omen for the discoveries all of us in the cast will continue to make as we work the process. Confession time. Typically, I try to build some sort of backstory for my character(s) before we begin the rehearsal process. And if they are historical figures, I'll do quite a bit of research into their lives. In this case, I (foolishly) assumed that my character Frank Nicklin, the original sports editor of The Sun, certainly must be fictional. I didn't pursue it any further, and began to sketch out what I thought would be a reasonable backstory for him. When I got home this evening, I decided to see if maybe he was, in fact, a real person. And boy was he! Frank Nicklin (1922-2002) was indeed a real person. And I could never have imagined a more colorful life story