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To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Simon Callow

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Simon Callow
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 13
Actor
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Simon Phillip Hugh Callow
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