You might say of the actor Michael Culver that, in Harold Wilson’s great phrase about Tony Benn, he immatured with age. He became more radical, more dyspeptic and more angry with politicians who get involved in foreign wars, especially those following meekly in the footsteps of the United States.
Although Culver, who has died aged 85, hailed from an upper middle-class background, and a theatrical one, too, his fire was lit by his participation in the so-called tribunal plays of the 1990s at the Tricycle (now the Kiln) in Kilburn, north London, where he was prominent in three riveting dramatic transcripts edited by Richard Norton-Taylor and directed by Nicolas Kent.
