George Logan

George Logan (7 July 1944 – 21 May 2023) was a female impersonator, born in Rutherglen, Scotland. he studied piano at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. He moved to London in 1965 where he began his drag performance career at a gay pub in Marylebone.

Logan was best known for playing the character of Dr Evadne Hinge, one half of the drag comedy double act Hinge and Bracket, alongside Patrick Fyffe as Dame Hilda Bracket. The pair worked together for a number of years until Fyffe's death in 2002.

Early life

George Logan was born in Rutherglen, a small coal-mining town in South Lanarkshire. He was the eldest child of Sarah (née Rae) and George Logan. His father was employed in car manufacturing. The family shared musical interests, and George took piano lessons as a child. As a teenager, George received piano training at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. George was educated at Rutherglen Academy and then went on to study music and English at the University of Glasgow.

During his adolescence, Logan became increasingly aware of his own homosexuality and of his unease as a flamboyant personality in a small industrial town.

Fyffe and Logan began to work together on a new comedy act. The original idea was that Fyffe would play a retired opera singer who still thinks she can sing, with Logan as her male accompanist, still dressed in men's clothes. As they adapted their act, they decided that it would work better if they both appeared as eccentric old ladies. The idea developed into a dual-drag act, Hinge and Bracket, with Logan and Fyffe playing genteel, elderly ladies performing songs by Gilbert and Sullivan, Noël Coward and Ivor Novello ("Dear Ivor") and reminiscing about past glories on the concert hall stage. Much of the comedy rested on the constant bickering between the two characters; Evadne played the "straight woman", providing the voice of reason and frequently sardonic retorts to Dame Hilda's extrovert performance. They developed plausible back stories for the characters, living in the fictional English country village of Stackton Tressel. In an interview in 2008 with the Gay men's magazine Bent, Logan explained that he and Fyffe based the Hinge and Bracket characters on English character types such as Joyce Grenfell and Margaret Rutherford. their double act rose to prominence when their show, An Evening with Hinge and Bracket, played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1974. Logan and Fyffe subsequently went on tour, taking their show to London theatres such as the Royal Court and the May Fair and the Ambassadors. Their success on stage led to the commissioning of several BBC Radio series, including The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket. They also collaborated with Gyles Brandreth on the script for their BBC Television programme, Dear Ladies (1983–1984).