 His range was wide, from Prospero in "The Tempest" (1962) and Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" (1964), to the villainous Captain Hook in Barrie's "Peter Pan" (1963, 1964 and 1968) and the hapless Mr Posket in Pinero's farce "The Magistrate" (1969).The new plays in which Sim appeared were Michael Gilbert's "Windfall" (1963), William Trevor's "The Elephant's Foot" (1965) and Ronald Millar's "Number Ten" (1967); he directed all three productions.The first was dismissed by "The Times" as a tepid comedy about a progressive young headmaster thwarted by a reactionary member of his staff; the second, billed as a pre-London tour, started and finished in the provinces; the last was castigated by Philip Hope-Wallace in "The Guardian" as "maladroit playmaking" with a tedious plot about political machinations.