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Sat 10 Oct 2008Meet the great persuader . . .
'I think I've the best job in the world,' says Michael Colgan, now 25 years at the helm of the Gate theatre - 'my mistress, my lover, my wife, my darling'
'I'VE ALWAYS BEEN quite persuasive," Michael Colgan says with a characteristic lack of modesty as he recounts how he convinced a nurse to let him in to visit theatre legend and Gate founding father Hilton Edwards as he lay on his deathbed in a Dublin hospital. "I sat with him for about an hour," recalls Colgan, who says the following morning he was woken by a telephone call telling him Edwards had died the previous night, presumably not long after his unexpected visit.
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