Kevin Spacey's golden age

From The Observer:

"One evening at the end of the summer a boat chugged down the Thames bearing precious freight. On board, staff, stage crew and actors from The Old Vic Theatre Company drank and danced their way around the decks, careful not to disturb the slumbering figure of Kevin Spacey, the theatre's artistic director.

'He was having a little nap at one point with Minnie, his dog, on his chest,' says Jessica Hynes, a star of the theatre's current hit, Alan Ayckbourn's 1973 trilogy The Norman Conquests. 'What was great was that he was there, though. He had come to support all of the staff. It was well before the previews or any reviews of our show, so it was just a general pat on the back for everyone. From the minute I started working at the theatre, that was the atmosphere I loved.'"

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