He has always been compared to Laurence Olivier. But, as his star-laden season opens at the Garrick, can he now outdo him as actor-manager " and save the West End? One thing I know about Kenneth Branagh: he has a strong sense of the past. I was astonished on first meeting him, just out of drama school, at how well informed he was about theatre history. "It's because," he told me, "I used to sit in my bedroom, as a bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AM on October 8, 2015