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Sandra Giorgetti met Philip Quast earlier this month as he was starting rehearsals for La Cage Aux Folles which previews shortly at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
We meet for morning coffee and he apologises for being late - he's been on a call to his folks, and he's worried. He speaks with unnerving intensity. Before the cafetière is even ready for plunging he is into an explanation on how American foreign policy and the war for oil is pushing the family farm to its ruin.
Fighting the urge to discuss politics, I address the primary reason we are meeting and ask about his forthcoming role. He is to play Georges, who runs a transvestite nightclub in St Tropez where his partner's stage persona, 'ZaZa' (played by Douglas Hodge), is the star attraction.
The show is, of course, multi-award-winning La Cage Aux Folles for which Harvey Fierstein wrote the book and Jerry Herman, the music and lyrics.
