I saw The Hollow Crown, presented by The Royal Shakespeare Company, in Cornwall in 1974 in the fall at I think General Vanier Secondary School - it was touring Canada. John Barton devised it as an anthology about British monarchs from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. I remember a reading about King George III's break from sanity when he addressed people around him as 'peacocks'. Prunella Scales, best known as Sybil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers, was in it. I can remember the closing scene with a man holding up the crown. I felt sophisticated going by myself to see it at 14. I think I saw Dracula at CCVS the same year.
