I was nudged into acting by a bolshie schoolmaster. He came out of Hitler’s war, still wearing his army fatigues, and revived play-acting at my grammar school. There was a small foreigner’s part in Sheridan’s play The Critic and Mr…
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By Joan Crawford, co-founder of the King’s Head pub theatre Robert and I made contact, after 50 years, through the internet. I read the sections of his book, Are You Going to do That Little Jump part one. about his…
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Introducing part two of Joan Crawford’s remarkable story The pattern of feast and famine continued over the years. Shortly after The Collector Peter Stevenson, then a solicitor, gave up his job and came to live and work at the Kings…
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I walked into the King’s Head pub and knew I was working with two, equally powerful, people – Joan and Dan Crawford. It was 1971, just one year after this imaginative couple created the upstart, cheeky theatre venue. Directors, actors,…
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And to tempt the biggest beast of them all – the mega-hulk Harold Hobson – out of his comfort zone to visit the back of a seedy pub in the sticks was epic – a triumph. Harold Hobson was, for…
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David Mercer’s murder thriller exploded at the King’s Head pub theatre at the perfect time. Two years after the King’s Head first hit society and the scene, we gave fans the ultimate show-biz thrill. Two couples fencing, verbally, in the…
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