CRAIG BROWN: As the perils of Am Dram make the news… What a drama as King Boris fluffs his lines! 

The stress suffered by actors going onstage for a first night is reckoned to be the equivalent of suffering a minor car crash. Their chief terror is the possibility of forgetting their lines, or — worse — not knowing any of them in the first place. Only those with freakish self-confidence can sail through. Aged … Read more