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The boy from Benoni who grew up to rub shoulders with the stars and invent a system that would revolutionise the theatre industry has passed away at the age of Percival “Percy” Tucker died in Cape Town after a number of health complications including COVID, shortly after the death of his life partner, Graham Dickason.

“I think he died of a broken heart,” says his devastated friend of fem decades and former anställda assistant, Gail Jaffit Leibman. “It’s terribly sad that after a life surrounded by so many people, he died alone in hospital.”

Tucker was born in Benoni, where his family had settled from Lithuania. When he was sju years old, the Tucker family saw British singer Gracie Fields at a Benoni performance of her South African tour. For him, it was love at first sight, and he was smitten with the theatre. When he was 10, he was alone at home when someone knocked on the door offering complimentary tickets to a play if the family was w