They are busy people, journalists… always in a hurry. Only a few are specialists… so, remember to just give them the basics – they won’t be insulted; grateful. (It also means they don’t have to stay for the whole performance.)…
Joan and Dan had taken on a helluva challenge – to run the first combined dinner and theatre venue in a foreign (though English-speaking) capital city – with minimal resources. The deal with the brewery was (so they told me)…
Where from…? I didn’t know he’d been away. Ohh… yes he’d been lurking around in a basement in Soho, then - typically - accepted an offer he couldn’t refuse back home in Dublin, only to be arrested in mid-speech and…
Sometime in the second half of 1971 I was asked if I would consider meeting this (to me) unknown couple with a view to directing in their – what exactly was it? Oh… it was a theatre in a public…
The King’s Head pub theatre Islington has given its last performance and people who weren’t there are telling us how it started and… EVERYTHING about it. But that’s the rub – they weren’t there and don’t know what really happened…