It did not surprise me that Lynne Kirwin became the doyenne of theatre publicists. At Kingsbury county grammar school in London, we auditioned for the same role in the school play, Anouilh’s Antigone, which she, more stage-struck than I, won. To celebrate we saw Paul Scofield’s thrilling Lear of 1962. Many years later, she fixed me an interview with Scofield’s Goneril – Irene Worth.
After graduating in English at Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London), Lynne took a summer job with Frank Dunlop at the Young Vic, and was persuaded to stay. Later she became Jonathan Miller’s press officer at Kent Opera. Hired by Peter Hall at the National Theatre in 1978, Lynne had found her metier for life.
