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Afraid of a choking fit and being unable to speak her lines she nevertheless got through her performances in Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, St Louis, Denver, and Washington – but in Chicago, she finally reached the end of her strength. She sought psychiatric help and with the psychiatrist traced the
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Drake was offered a contract for a six-month tour of the U.S. and Canada – a very demanding one, nine plays, eight of them to be presented one after the other in the first week. She had to learn her parts in three weeks. "Mistress Page proved a great stumbling block. She speaks only prose...only two
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when she had made herself sick by pushing a spoon down her throat. Until her temporary retirement from the stage, when she got married, she was henceforth to make herself physically sick before each and every performance to get rid of the choking before she went near the stage. Back in England, her
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asked her to join his depleted teaching staff at RADA she was recovered and available. For the three years 1943, 1944, 1945 she worked with students, work which she later described as, 'one of the most stimulating and rewarding periods' of her life. Her students included
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Besides acting the most formative influence in Drake's childhood was the Anglican religion – later seceded from – and the outstanding memory of her Christmases was the sung Saint Cecilia Mass of
283:– a senior student who wrote plays for her. Despite being about five feet seven inches tall she was called 'the Shrimp', and played a very wide range of parts – Richard II, Macbeth, Cardinal Richelieu in 554:. She was the victim of serious stage-fright at this period in her career, the result of a spasm in her throat that prevented her from speaking and that she feared would return at inopportune moments. 259:(later to become RADA) in December 1913. (It was the high-ups at the ADA who decided McGlinchy was too difficult to pronounce and too hard to remember for a stage name so she changed it, ultimately by 1877: 529:(October 1926) wrote "Fabia Drake...she has not been long on the professional stage. She has judgment and poise and a mind that lifts a trivial part out of its triviality." And 1949: 1924: 370: 263:, to Drake which was the second of her father's Christian names and to Fabia which was the second of her baptismal names, chosen because she was born on St Fabian's Day) ( 557:
In 1929, she went with the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon on its tour of the United States – in three weeks she had to learn the parts of Lady Macbeth, Beatrice in
297:. Her teachers included Norman Page, whom she admired and to whose teaching she responded – "he gave you confidence, he inspired you with his enthusiasm", and 521:. In Marie Tempest, she found " artistic understanding, comradeship and succour." The play was a success when it opened and brought Drake some critical attention. 301:, to whom she did not respond and who was not, according to Drake, a great teacher. She made her first professional appearance on a stage at the Court Theatre, 390: 595:– the work was exhibited at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1934 to celebrate Sickert's election as R.A. Shortly before leaving on the White Star liner 309:
as a hermit land-crab – "in a shell of immense weight and unparalleled discomfort." Her first paid work came when she was cast in a production of
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first intrusion of her phobia into her work on the stage and its possible origin in a lie she had told to avoid
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as Hassan. Drake, an understudy, played both of the two women's parts in the play, Yasmin and Pervaneh, when
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asked Drake to undertake the casting and production of his forthcoming post-war season in management at the
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days were left for Mrs Page: 'Oh I can finish her off (she nearly finished me off) on board the boat", (the
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in Los Angeles – he too became a friend. Back from Hollywood, she played in the opening performance at the
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fell ill, Drake was called in to replace him, and so she met a junior chorister also in the production –
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RADA ex-students formed The RADA Players, and Drake became the second of its secretaries. In a play of
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she suffered a recurrence of the spasm in her throat and so the trip began with an element of fear.
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There were also two notable screen performances in her last years, as Catherine Alan in
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to return to the theatre. She accepted the offer of a part in a thriller called
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She became interested in researching Shakespeare's troupe of actors, men like
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Born Ethel McGlinchy, the actress's Irish father, a caterer, was an actor
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to create her own, first, part. The play ran for six months, directed by
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in her dressing room during her 'waits' in Albanesi's current success
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Selected performances in the Theatre Archive, University of Bristol
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friend John Gielgud asked her to play Rosalind in a production of
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Back in London in 1921 and unemployed, she spent time with
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production, in the sleepwalking scene, she was painted by
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needed an actress to play his daughter in a production of
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