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# Little Jump

The website of actor Robert Gillespie

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## Posts

- [When you’re dealing with journalists… <br>Be Kind and Helpful and Thoughtful…](https://littlejump.co.uk/when-youre-dealing-with-journalists-be-kind-and-helpful-and-thoughtful/) - Actor, writer and director Robert Gillespie writes about dealing with journalists and theatre critics. 'Just give them the basics’, so they don't have to stay.
- [Reconnecting with Robert after 50 years](https://littlejump.co.uk/reconnecting-with-robert-after-50-years/) - 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 time at the King’s Head and sent him my piece, Here’s to The King’s Head,
- [How the King’s Head Theatre was really founded: Part 2](https://littlejump.co.uk/how-the-kings-head-theatre-was-really-founded-part-2/) - Part two of Joan Crawford’s remarkable story on how the King’s Head Theatre in Islington started. True story on how she founded it with husband Dan Crawford.
- [How the King’s Head Theatre was really founded](https://littlejump.co.uk/how-the-kings-head-theatre-was-really-founded/) - True story on how the King's Head Theatre club Islington was really founded by Joan and Dan Crawford. Imaginative couple and their upstart cheeky theatre venue
- [Tempting the big beasts to the King’s Head](https://littlejump.co.uk/tempting-the-big-beasts-to-the-kings-head/) - Let's Murder Vivaldi performed at the King's Head Pub Theatre, Islington 1972. Reviews including Harold Hobson The Sunday Times. The Problem by A.R. Gurney
- [Men and Women – what else is there? Mostly…](https://littlejump.co.uk/lets-murder-vivaldi/) - Let's Murder Vivaldi at The KIng's Head Pub Theatre Islington 1972. Directed by Robert Gillespie, staring Diana Fairfax, Diane Mercer, Kevin Stoney, Tom Conti
- [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland](https://littlejump.co.uk/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/) - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at the Altrincham Garrick, January 1952. Graham Armitage was the Carpenter and Robert Gillespie was the Walrus.
- [Constance Sykes at the Altrincham Garrick](https://littlejump.co.uk/constance-sykes-altrincham-garrick/) - At an amateur show you can watch an actor as good as you’ll see anywhere. Constance Sykes played spectacular leading parts at the Altrincham Garrick.
- [William (Bill) Toothill at the Altrincham Garrick](https://littlejump.co.uk/altrincham-garrick-william-bill-toothill/) - The other outstanding player at the Altrincham Garrick in my time was William (Bill) Toothill. He was superb as Crocker-Harris in Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version – a tale of a schoolmaster who becomes known to the boys as ‘The Himmler of the lower fifth’. There’s more about the play and Rattigan here This is
- [The Altrincham Garrick Society](https://littlejump.co.uk/altrincham-garrick-society/) - 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 Urwin – George Urwin was the teacher’s name – heard I wasn’t English (still had
- [History shmistory!](https://littlejump.co.uk/history-shmistory/) - The King’s Head pub theatre in Islington has given its last performance and people who weren’t there are telling us how it started and… EVERYTHING about it.
- [Dan and Joan Crawford – never heard of them](https://littlejump.co.uk/dan-and-joan-crawford/) - In the second half of 1971, I was asked if I would consider meeting Dan and Joan Crawford with a view to directing at the King’s Head pub Theatre Islington
- [Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris, my show number two](https://littlejump.co.uk/mr-joyce-is-leaving-paris-my-show-number-two/) - Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris written by Tom Gallagher, directed by Robert Gillespie & starring Robert Bernal & Tony Doyle triumphed at the King's Head pub Theatre Islington
- [Ten top tips for starting a pub theatre](https://littlejump.co.uk/ten-top-tips-for-starting-a-pub-theatre/) - 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) ‘buy X amount of booze for the bar and you can use the clapped- out
- [Actors are used to slumming](https://littlejump.co.uk/actors-are-used-to-slumming/) - Actor and director Robert Gillespie writes about his experiences of the King’s Head Pub Theatre, Islington when it first opened in the 1970s.
- [How sacred is an author’s wish?](https://littlejump.co.uk/how-sacred-is-an-authors-wish/) - The rocky road which led to the spectacular success of Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris in Dublin, left management and audience hungry for more from author Tom Gallacher. And pat from his satchel he produced – Revival! A tale of an actor-manager thinking about – and actually – jumping from the top of his sky-high
- [Revival arrives at the King’s Head](https://littlejump.co.uk/revival-arrived-at-the-kings-head/) - To my astonishment – and dismay – the author, Tom Gallacher, responded adversely to Julian’s performance.‘Too negative, too downbeat’ was his judgement. Idly, I wondered if Shakespeare was ever troubled by the astonishing variety of interpretations of Hamlet he must have endured. There is a kind of hierarchy of persons to be respected in the
- [Revival at the King’s Head part three](https://littlejump.co.uk/at-the-kings-head-part-three/) - Kevin Stoney played Bernard Kevin at the King’s Head. Kevin was, indeed, very different. Much lighter, much more tongue-in-cheek, much more optimistic. His reviews were good and – importantly – he pleased the author. Jim Norton played the three wickedly mocked doctors superbly (as did Tony Doyle in the Dublin production) and Diana Fairfax reprised
- [What would have been the greatest sitcom ever](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-greastest-sitcom-ever/) - You have been reading Episode One of what would have been the greatest sitcom ever. We’ve been inundated with questions asking… Why? What happened? Why wasn’t there more? Was someone ill? Was it too political? Did some high-up intervene, and block it? Did a key actor drop dead? Etc. Now… For the first time since
- [Bizarre Boxing](https://littlejump.co.uk/bizarre-boxing/) - This must be one of David Nobbs’ most bizarre inventions. There’s our wife, Pauline Yates – acting as a boxing referee, I think. And I see that Geoffrey Palmer is in this boxing scene. (I was his patient in Butterflies.) I suspect there is a philosophical “ism” attached to the self-boxing sequence associated with a
- [Reggie Perrin meets Mr Dent](https://littlejump.co.uk/reggie-perrin-meets-mr-dent/) - Odd… to play the same scene twice with the same actor – for different writers. Leonard Rossiter caught me, suddenly, regretting my woeful career. First as a gas inspector, then as a housing controller. Leonard and I also shared a wife – Pauline Yates (on TV). So far, so coincidental. But the fate of the
- [Getting mauled by The Professionals](https://littlejump.co.uk/getting-mauled-by-the-professionals/) - I very nearly made an entire career playing small-time criminals… after starting life in the heavy stuff, Shakespeare at the Old Vic (two years of it) and thinking this might point to the road ahead for ever… I got a shock. I emerged, blinking, from under the protective skirts of the BARD and faced a
- [Appearing in The Professionals](https://littlejump.co.uk/appearing-in-the-professionals/) - Not many actors have my huge advantage of being professionally nondescript – which is why I was able to appear in TWO episodes of The Professionals. Admittedly, with a beard and wiped-out pre-title, but an achievement all the same. Happened on other occasions, also. For example, being nondescript became a huge asset in sitcom. I
- [Ooh-La-La! French Farce on UK TV](https://littlejump.co.uk/ooh-la-la-french-farce-on-uk-tv/) - The difference between French farce and English farce is that in English farce the naughty behaviour is implied – and milked for all it’s worth… but then turns out to be a misunderstanding: which keeps up the hypocritical, self-serving fiction that “chaps (and chapesses) like us are frightfully moral really,” and that no-one in English
- [Making Dickie Happy, part one](https://littlejump.co.uk/making-dickie-happy-part-one/) - Making Dickie Happy is a brilliant Noel Cowardish, play fancifully bringing together three starry people, when they were young, to an island off the Devon coast
- [Actors who want to be liked, part two](https://littlejump.co.uk/actors-who-want-to-be-liked-part-two/) - Read the second in a series of linked articles about 'Actors who want to be liked' by Robert Gillespie actor, theatre director and writer. Includes a story about actor Geoffrey Lumsden.
- [Actors who want to be liked, part one](https://littlejump.co.uk/actors-who-want-to-be-liked/) - Read Part 1 of 'Actors who want to be liked', a series of insightful articles by Robert Gillespie actor, theatre director and writer.
- [Actors who want to be liked, part three](https://littlejump.co.uk/actors-who-want-to-be-liked-part-three/) - The third part of the series written by actor director Robert Gillespie, covering Catchpenny Twist at the King's Head theatre club
- [Actors who want to be liked, part four](https://littlejump.co.uk/actors-who-want-to-be-liked-part-four/) - Actors who want to be liked. What makes a professional performer, hired to play a part in a certain way, deliberately break the deal with author and audience?
- [Actors who want to be liked, part five](https://littlejump.co.uk/actors-who-want-to-be-liked-part-five/) - Read the final part of Robert Gillespie’s series about actors who want to be liked. Includes the play Making Dickie Happy, about Agatha Christie and Lord Louis Mountbatten.
- [The Understudy, part one](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-understudy-part-one/) - Actor Robert Gillespie writes about being an understudy to Paul Rogers cast as Touchstone in the 1955 Old Vic production of As You Like It.
- [The Understudy, part two](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-understudypart-two/) - In part two of The Understudy, actor and director, Robert Gillespie writes about being the understudy to Paul Rogers at the Old Vic.
- [The Understudy, part three](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-understudypart-three/) - In part three of The Understudy, actor and director, Robert Gillespie writes about performing AS You Like It in Dublin and Belfast
- [The Understudy, part four](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-understudypart-four/) - The fourth part of the story by actor and director, Robert Gillespie, who writes about the grand finale scene of As You Like It, performed at the Old Vic.
- [The Hungarian Count, part one](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-one/) - In the summer of 1975, I was driving along the coast in the south of France on the way to visit a girl who’d been au pair to Michael Bialoguski. Michael was the self-appointed counter-espionage agent who’d outed Vladimir Petrov in a sensational Western anti-Soviet coup in Australia in 1954. I write about Michael in
- [The Hungarian Count, part two](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-two/) - Claudine Vattier’s French translation of Wenckheim’s play arrived. La Terre de Wrangel, she called it; Wrangel Island, in English. It’s a real place. A sizeable island belonging to Russia, about five hundred miles west from Alaska. Today, it’s known as the last place on earth where woolly mammoths survived, till about four thousand years ago,
- [The Hungarian Count, part three](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-3/) - In September of 1975 Claudine Vattier wrote to say how pleased she was that we liked Wrangel Island; she thought it ‘intéressante’ and found the characters to be ‘chouettes’ – cool. She recognised the difficulty of placing it! In passing, she asked me if there were any plays in English that I’d directed that I could
- [The Hungarian Count, part four](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-four/) - We were at the height of the Cold War when Wenckheim was writing, so global fear of the possibility of a nuclear exchange, and the resulting effects of radiation on the surviving population, were at their most alarming. Nevertheless, what began to interest me was that this writer was prepared to fling damning accusations in
- [The Hungarian Count, part five](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-five/) - Part five of actor and director Robert Gillespie's tale about Hungarian count, Nicholas Wenckheim, who wrote a play about Wrangel Island.
- [The Hungarian Count, part six](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-six/) - Actor and Director Robert Gillespie continues the story of his encounter with Hungarian Count, Nicholas Wenckheim, who had written a play about the Soviet Union
- [The Hungarian Count, part seven](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-seven/) - Actor Robert Gillespie writes about Nicholas Wenckheim who was tall, slim handsomely lean-faced, beautifully dressed – probably in his fifties. He spoke remarkably good English and displayed the most exquisite manners.
- [The Hungarian Count, part eight](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-eight/) - There is an entry, in the category of counts – of whom there are many – in a schedule of the Hungarian aristocracy as follows: “Wenckheim: Article 73 of 1790/91. Austrian baron: 1776; Austrian count: 1802. The Wenckheims’ hereditary seat at the Upper House of the Diet of Hungary was confirmed by Act VIII of
- [The Hungarian Count, part nine](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-nine/) - Perhaps inevitably, we entered a period you might call the battle for recognition and rights. In all my time in theatre I’ve only ever been ratted on, or swindled, over rights to a text. Viable plays seem to provoke the most unpleasant instincts in both writers and potential exploiters of their work. The totally chaotic,
- [The Hungarian Count, part ten](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-ten/) - The penultimate part of Robert Gillespie's story about Hungarian Count Nicholas Wenckheim and his play about a secret soviet prison island 500 miles from Alaska.
- [The Hungarian Count, part eleven](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-hungarian-count-part-eleven/) - Tucked in among my books, I found a publisher’s copy of Twelve Hundred Hostages. There was some blurb… In execution, the play might just about stand up as a time-warped addition to the Tales From the Arabian Nights. It echoes the manner of ‘experimental’ theatre of the 1940s – might have crept on at the
- [Playing a gasman](https://littlejump.co.uk/playing-a-gasman/) - Article about the gasman scene in Rising Damp, staring Leonard Rossiter and Robert Gillespie
- [A Consumer Guide to Religions](https://littlejump.co.uk/a-consumer-guide-to-religions/) - Shock and horror. This was one of the ground-breaking, society-changing, pieces of writing for which the BBC’s That Was the Week That Was became notorious.
- [Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris, 50 year broadcast: Part 2](https://littlejump.co.uk/mr-joyce-is-leaving-paris-50-year-broadcast-part-2/) - Watch part 2 of the 50th anniversary showing of Mr. Joyce is Leaving Paris, which first saw the light of day in a Soho basement. The critics gave it rave reviews.
- [Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris, 50 year broadcast: Part 1](https://littlejump.co.uk/mr-joyce-is-leaving-paris-50-year-broadcast/) - Watch the 50th anniversary broadcast of Mr. Joyce is Leaving Paris, which first saw the light of day in a Soho basement. The critics gave it rave reviews.
- [My mate Bernard](https://littlejump.co.uk/my-mate-bernard/) - Actor and director Robert Gillespie writes about his friend Bernard Bresslaw who had one of the sharpest minds of anyone he ever knew.
- [Howard Goorney <br>– A red gent](https://littlejump.co.uk/howard-goorney/) - Read about when actor Robert Gillespie first met Howard Goorney when they were both working at Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop in Stratford, east London
- [What do you mean Little Jump?](https://littlejump.co.uk/what-do-you-mean-little-jump/) - An article by actor, director and writer Robert Gillespie on the title of this website and the two volumes of his book. Are You Going to do That Little Jump, The Adventure Continues launched October 2021
- [Covid and future of theatre](https://littlejump.co.uk/covid-and-future-of-theatre/) - Actor and director, Robert Gillespie considers the COVID 19 and the future theatre

## Pages

- [Home](https://littlejump.co.uk/) - TV, films, actor’s tales are yours to reminisce. They strayed into the life of actor, director, writer Robert Gillespie. As you roam you’ll find fun and fantasy
- [The Private Sector](https://littlejump.co.uk/the-private-sector/) - Unseen 1980s sitcom script written by Peter Jones and Robert Gillespie about privatisation; turning an English public school into a prison. Thatcher's Britain.
- [Oedipus Retold](https://littlejump.co.uk/jane-nightwork-productions/oedipus-retold/) - Written by Jeremy Kingston directed by Robert Gillespie, double bill of Oedipus The King, a new translation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos alongside Oedipus at the Crossroads
- [Making Dickie Happy](https://littlejump.co.uk/jane-nightwork-productions/making-dickie-happy/) - Making Dickie Happy a stage comedy by Jeremy Kingston and Robert Gillespie. About a young Noel Coward, Lord Louis 'Dickie' Mountbatten and Agatha Christie.
- [Robert Gillespie](https://littlejump.co.uk/robert-gillespie/) - Robert Gillespie has been in television and sitcom including Keep It in the Family. He directed at the King’s Head Theatre. Appeared in Mike Leigh’s Peterloo.
- [Horn of plenty](https://littlejump.co.uk/horn-of-plenty/) - Discover a permanent collection of theatre, film, television and sitcom memorabilia gathered over seventy years refreshed from time to time. Horn of plenty.
- [Jane Nightwork Productions](https://littlejump.co.uk/jane-nightwork-productions/) - About Robert Gillespie’s production company, Jane Nightwork Productions (JNP). Theatre company which presents works based on relationships between men & women
- [Tales from the Green Room](https://littlejump.co.uk/tales-from-the-green-room/) - Enjoy tales and yarns spanning 70 years from actor & director Robert Gillespie about TV, Sitcom, Stage, Theatre and Film. Tales from the Green Room.
- [What I did, when](https://littlejump.co.uk/robert-gillespie-what-i-did-when/) - The chronology of Robert Gillespie actor, writer and director. From 1933 to present.
- [Contact](https://littlejump.co.uk/contact-little-jump/) - Feel free to contact Little Jump, the website of actor, writer and director Robert Gillespie, with your thoughts and observations.
- [Keep It in the Family](https://littlejump.co.uk/keep-it-in-the-family/) - Film clips dedicated to 70s and 80s sitcom Keep It in the Family written by Brian Cooke staring Robert Gillespie, Pauline Yates, Stacy Dorning & Sabina Franklyn
- [Book](https://littlejump.co.uk/book/) - Robert Gillespie illustrated Book Are You Going to do That Little Jump? The Adventure Continues about his eventful life in sitcom, theatre, television and film
- [Shaw’s Women](https://littlejump.co.uk/jane-nightwork-productions/shaws-women/) - Jane Nightwork Productions Shaw’s Women – a double bill of rarely performed short works by George Bernard Shaw explore two of his lesser known but more provocative female characters.
- [The Red Baron](https://littlejump.co.uk/jane-nightwork-productions/the-red-baron/) - For the first time in history, young men were fighting in flimsy machines for country and personal glory. This play is about Manfred von Richthofen, better-known by his nickname The Red Baron. Written and directed by Robert Gillespie.
- [Portia](https://littlejump.co.uk/jane-nightwork-productions/portia/) - An actress is preparing to play her first major role as Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. She has a small son and juggles with her responsibilities as a mother, her ambition, and how much she can impose on her partner.
- [Love, Question Mark](https://littlejump.co.uk/jane-nightwork-productions/love-question-mark/) - Love, Question Mark, written and directed by Robert Gillespie performed at the Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton. The play poses provocative questions about sexuality and old age.

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## Portfolio

- [Our Public Show 4](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/our-public-show-4/) - Distinguished cast, or what!? But… see Felix Aylmer’s letter for the low-down.
- [Our Public Show 3](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/our-public-show-3/) - After two years’ training, under wraps – we get to be seen!
- [Our Public Show 2](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/our-public-show-2/) - With this team in the dugout, surely the best drama school in the world!
- [Our Public Show](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/our-public-show/) - After two years performing in a basement in Malet Street, we were shot onto the stage of a proper theatre to show the world what we could do.
- [Alan Bates at RADA](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/alan-bates-at-rada/) - I’m often asked, “Who was in your class at RADA?” Well, here’s a typical programme. You’ll notice that no-one played the whole of any of the leading parts. For the lowdown on why… read Are You Going to do That Little Jump? volume One.
- [Felix Aylmer's Letter](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/felix-aylmers-letter/) - At the end of our two-year acting course at RADA we were all promised one public performance to market our talents. There were ninety eligible students in my cohort. Only forty-five got parts. Of those, only fifteen were worth playing. At the age of nineteen, I was cast to play a man of sixty-five. It
- [Oedipus at the Crossroads](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/sword-and-shield/) - These two echoes of ancient classical warfare represent theatre productions inspired by a brilliant, comic rewriting – by Jeremy Kingston – of the sad, old tale of poor young Oedipus. The poor lad’s mum and dad listened to the mumblings of a religious oracle and put their precious baby son and heir out on a
- [Donald Wolfit](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/donald-wolfit/) - There was a course on offer at RADA whose object was to provide a background to the practical training that was the main function of the drama school. Staffed by true academic theatre luminaries of the day, such as Phyllis Hartnoll and Muriel St. Clare Byrne, the lectures covered history of drama and costume. That’s
- [Peter Cushing](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/peter-cushing-signed-photo/) - My Hungarian mother fell for this actor big time. To the point where she sent up for a signed photo of himself. She prided herself on knowing about artists – there had been several in her family. Once, I was on set with this man in Frankenstein Must be Destroyed, though too lowly to bother
- [The Old Vic](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/old-vic-programmes/) - This was my first job. A notice went up at RADA announcing auditions for the launch of an ambitious project to cover the entire canon of Shakespeare plays over five years. I wrote and asked to be listed. They saw me – I think I have the audition pieces somewhere… probably a bit of Cloten
- [Carole Lombard](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/carole-lombard/) - I was a kid when I acquired these cigarette cards and hadn't the faintest idea who these people were – or that I would become an actor. But the other night I saw Carole Lombard starring opposite William Randall (they were once briefly married) in a 1936 movie which used the Depression as lift-off for
- [Cardboard Citizens](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/cardboard-citizens-lower-depths/) - This image prompts a recollection of my first encounter with Cardboard Citizens. It began with a phone call from an actor acquaintance. He told me of a production of Gorki’s The Lower Depths. It was to be revived with the replacement of a key part. He had been offered that part because the director was
- [Ralph Richardson](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/ralph-richardson/) - I don’t suppose many people reading this will have ever heard of Ralph Richardson – Sir Ralph Richardson, when he became one of the – then – rare theatrical knights (they’re under every bush, now). I happened to have a show playing at the King's Head Theatre which might, could – just – qualify as
- [Bonfire, Dublin](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/bonfire-dublin/) - The poster used by Gemini Productions for Bonfire was in the style favoured by many managements in Dublin. Its reserved and stately demeanour, however, disguised an explosive stage event. Dublin, then, was still an outwardly ‘moral’ society which – publicly – celebrated its clean living and wholesome piety. Aside from chronic alcoholism, that is… which quenched and
- [Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/mr-joyce-is-leaving-paris/) - The posters for Tom Gallacher’s play Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris had several incarnations. This brilliant play began its life in a Soho basement where the poster was not much more than a dashed off pen and ink scrawl. In Dublin (where the play was interrupted by court action – see Are You Going to
- [Royal Court Theatre](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/look-back-in-anger/) - I found this statement online: “On 8 May 1956, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court on Sloane Square. It was the third production of the new English Stage Company, under Artistic Director George Devine, and is now considered the play that marks the beginning of modern British drama. George Devine
- [Shoe and Whisky Bottle](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/props-from-my-heart/) - Let your imagination rip and it might go for a thrilling ride around these objects. The play, surely, was about a disinherited younger son who, given a sum meant to pay his way through university, instead, splashed it on a priceless necklace used to purchase the loyalty of a magnificent half-Spanish, half Swedish courtesan. The
- [Susan Hampshire](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/susan-hampshire/) - I would not have expected, in the ordinary course of my work, to have dinner with Susan Hampshire. She was a star in a firmament that I could only expect to enter as an unremarkable satellite. But, we both happened to be friendly with an independent producer of plays, Richard Jackson. I’d worked very productively
- [Tennessee Williams](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/tennessee-williams/) - Tennessee, in this photo, looks like a regular, totally together, dead average, happy-with-himself kind of guy. Read about him, though, and you get told about drugs, drink, mental inequilibrium, mad sister… Also, as I began to know his work, I noted that few practitioners could agree on how to present his plays on stage. For
- [Wig creations](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/wig-creations/) - I doubt if any young actors keep a stash of false face hair in their stage kit, nowadays. Some years back most young actors expected to be asked to play parts way older than their real ages. Unavoidably, if you were in a school play, someone had to play the old guys – just as
- [Gelatine mediums](https://littlejump.co.uk/portfolio/gelatine-mediums/) - ‘Gels’ available for stage lighting often came in these neat sample swatches. Some – not all – lighting designers of the early modern period would peer up at their naked lights, through these celluloid strips, to see what effect one variant of a gel, or another, might have when a face or a stage set

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