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Toby Robertson obituary by Michael Coveney

Toby Robertson, who has died aged 83, was the artistic director of the Prospect Theatre Company from 1964 to 1978, and re-established the good name and reputation of touring theatre in the UK after it had become a byword for second-rate tattiness in the 1950s. Large and enthusiastic, with a Falstaffian relish about him, Robertson was an ebullient, buccaneering figure, commanding the respect not only of his&…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PM on July 8, 2012

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