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Simon Lack on Stage Lack began his theatrical career in the Brandon-Thomas repertory companies at Edinburgh and Glasgow during the season of 1935-37. The Last Trump, by Bridie (Duke of York’s, 1938) Music at Night, by JB Priestly (Westminster, 1938) His career, like that of so many other people, was interupted for 7 years by WWII. David in H.P. Templeton’s You Won’t Need the Halo (Arts), set in a London mission-hall another David in Peter Yates’ The Assassin, a bold attempt at a verse tragedy in the grand manner (Lyric, Hammersmith) Gilbert in Jane, S. N. Behrman’s version of a story by [Somerset] Maugham (Aldwych, 1947 Sextus in Cage Me A Peacock, a musical (Strand, 1947) set in classical Rome. He had a long run as an amiably sympathetic young man in [Noel] Coward’s Relative Values (Savoy, 1951); and at various times played one of the undergraduates in Charley’s Aunt, and the elder son in Enid Bagnold’s The Chinese Prime Minister (Globe, 1965),