'How much happier the man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.' so said Dr Frankenstein to himself, in his head, after making a botch job of building a man. Richard Todd concurs. A master of menial tasks, it is a tragedy that he ever meddled with ambition. But now it's alive and he must appease it. Fresh from the bath, flibbertigibbet Richard Todd blurts out an Edinburgh debut no greater than his nature allows.
