‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’ (Henry VI, Part 2), is among the Bard’s most famous lines, and one of his most controversial. But Jonathan Goldsmith – esteemed Gazette columnist, former secretary general of the CCBE, current member of the Law Society’s board – is not taking it personally. 

Among Jonathan’s many manifestations, Obiter has discovered, is classical actor. If you happen to be in Brussels tomorrow, you can catch him at the Centre Culturel Jacques Franck playing Gonzalo, counsellor to King Alonso of Naples, in The Tempest. One of the play’s principal themes is the meaning of utopia, upon which he opined for us this week (tinyurl.com/ 4ntz34nv).

Upon further investigation, we are doubly impressed to learn that Jonathan is no mere dabbler. He’s been Falstaff in Henry  lV and, in 2018, played a baker (pictured) in the BBC TV version of Les Misérables.

‘My only claim to having once, briefly, been a professional actor,’ he says.

Too modest, Mr G. As Bill himself put it, ‘One man, in his time, plays many parts’.

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