It Lives...But Is It ALIVE?

The above question is raised in Brain Without A Body and it's something to think about whilst watching the on-stage shower scene.

A different question is raised by the recently-discovered image (below) and that is: 'Cripes! What is it?' 

It's the BWAB equivalent of those shadowy images of Eliot Nessie, the untouchable, monstrous Scottish poet that periodically appear in news-strapped magazines. Our pic is taken from the photo-shoot of the show's original production in July 1898. 

The Baron, during that first 20-week run, was played by Sir Henry Irving, with Dame Patty O'Dawes as Marcia and Pedro Maguire as Bob. Alan was then known as 'Montague' (he was renamed, in the 1970 script update, by Harold Pinter) but who played him? Look at the image and speculate...