Sheila Ballantine obituary

A quote from Michael Coveny’s Guardian obituary of Sheila Ballantine (1928–2026), who was in Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturio Ui with Leonard Rossiter and Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests , among much, much else. Ballantine was her own woman and conducted a colourful private life at her own pace, settling in a mansion flat in Belsize Park, north-west London, in the early 1960s.…