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'We're so lucky to have met her': Anna Scher's former students on their lessons in drama and life

by Interviews By Chris Wiegand

Anna Scher, who has died aged 78, gave acting classes to countless young people at her north London theatre school. Gary Kemp, Jake Wood, Winsome Pinnock, Trevor Laird and Ricardo P Lloyd recall a remarkable teacher I first went to Anna's school in Islington in 1969. I had some money from my paper round and used that to get in " I didn't even tell my parents. A friend of mine had said it was good fun. The work we did…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:12pm on November 13, 2023