Directors and other stars make the names of theatres, but they come and go. Away from the bright lights and sometimes operating those lights are the people who stay and give those companies much of their heart and soul. One such was my colleague Christopher Naylor, universally known as Tink, who has died of kidney failure, aged 46.
Tink was an assistant electrician with Sheffield Theatres, and such was his presence backstage that his death prompted tributes from a Dutch snooker referee, chamber music promoters Music in the Round, and hundreds of current and former colleagues.
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