After The River he will head on to Sheffield to play Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Crucible theatre.

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Even the names are seductive: Gull, Spectacle, Duck, Turtle, Herring, Round, Sough, Snow, Higgins, Dyer, Great, many of which were admired by Henry David Thoreau, who wrote of them in Cape Cod.

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