Charles Thake was famous for his improvisations on stage, some of which beautifully covered his ‘dries’, which is how the theatre community refers to forgetting lines. He and Joe Izzo made a fine comic team in the 1970s and 1980s.
This photo, taken during a rehearsal of Bugħawwieġ, a famous French farce skilfully adapted and translated into Maltese by Ġuże Muscat Azzopardi, directed by Paul Xuereb at the Manoel Theatre in 1972, shows both actors at the height of their careers.