OCTOBER 1998: Ingrid Pitt Unveils Bust Of Peter Cushing
At Chatham Theatre:
Ingrid said on her website at the time: 'One of the best `do's' I've been to recently was down in Chatham. A
group of theatre lovers have got together to try and save The Theatre
Royal. It was a project dear to the heart of Peter Cushing and it now
looks as if, with the council backing it, there maybe a future for the
derelict theatre. I was there to open an exhibition of Peter's water
colours and unveil a bust of his head.'
She goes on to say, 'Sheila Gray, secretary of the restoration group, rang me a couple of
days after my visit and told me that at last the local council have
decided to help out with a welcome £50,000. Now I don't want to claim
that my visit had anything to do with the councils belated magnanimity
but..... whatever the reason, I was asked back in October and presented
with a life-size head of Peter Cushing. Tit for tat! In Vampire Lovers
he decapitated me - now I've got my own back. I wish Peter had been
there to see it, it would have suited his sense of humour!'
