YOU may well recognise these couple of swells in white tie and top hats, sipping Champagne. They are actors Forbes Masson and Alan Cumming, dressed, quite possibly, as their early stage creations Victor and Barry, a couple of posh Kelvinside actors.
They later adapted the characters into air stewards on the television comedy series High Life.
Here they are in 1987 publicising the 21st birthday of the touring company TAG Theatre which took shows to schools. It was originally just for Glasgow schools as the company’s name was Theatre About Glasgow, but as they spread further afield, the name was shortened to TAG.
Forbes and Alan, who met at the RSAMD in Glasgow, originally appeared with TAG in a production of Great Expectations.
As the first director of TAG, Christine Redington bluntly put it: “Introducing young people to the Arts is a slow process and we’ll succeed as long as we use relevant material and refuse to be dragged into a rut of redundant hangers-on.”
TAG operated out of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.
Forbes is still a busy actor and director while Alan moved to America where he has reglarly appeared on Broadway as well as in the TV series The Good Wife.
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