Lawrence O'Connor

Lawrence O'Connor. Actor: Straggler of '45. Lawrence was born in Cape Town, South Africa to an actress mother, Annie Balfour and radical anti-apartheid writer father, Lionel Attwell. His first subsequent 'homes' included the original Traverse Theatre, 15 James Court, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, a 'former doss-house and brothel also known as 'Kelly's Paradise' and 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was "a long, low-ceilinged first-floor room barely 15ft wide by 8ft high" with 60 seats...