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Philip Quast tells Bryce Hallett how Play School helped him as a performer.
With his big, watchful eyes, outspoken nature and expansive gestures, Philip Quast knows how to make an entrance, and not only on stage.
The London-based actor was doing what he loves best late last year - dividing his time between a straight play and a musical - when he hastily popped along to the launch of the director Michael Blakemore's memoir Arguments with England.
Quast didn't have time to change after performing in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and arrived clad in a short leather skirt, gold armbands and a matching helmet. Being a sage man of the theatre, Blakemore seemed not to care or notice when he casually introduced the actor to the playwright Michael Frayn. "Oh, by the way, Michael, this is Philip Quast. He's going to be in Democracy in Sydney."
Frayn stared in amazement, replying: "Really? What part?"
"Willy Brandt!"
© The Sydney Morning Herald.