Melbourne was just stirring into public cultural life when the hotel quarantine mishap led to that last alarming lockdown that swallowed Valentine’s Day and an empire of food and flowers. Only a week or so before, I had bumped into Richard Piper, that veteran man of the theatre, as good a Henry IV in the greatest of Shakespeare’s history plays as you would ever be likely to see.
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