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Arts: Reviving theatre’s masterpieces is not just being boring, says veteran actor Alan Stanford – it’s a necessary reinvestigation of what is vital about such texts

EVERYONE KNOWS Alan Stanford. There’s that unmistakable deep baritone with its plummy English intonations, and that benign expression that was for so long his trademark as a member of the Glenroecast. He’s also appeared in countless roles on Irish theatre stages over the past four decades, and is even familiar to a young generation who have seen him in productions of plays from their school curriculum by Second Age, the company he helped establish 20 years ago.