![]() The local watch committee sent along a couple of policeman who reported ![]() At the Edinburgh Festival, the late Councillor John Kidd took offence to this show of male affection, particularly as it took place on a stage erected within the Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland. Laurenson's lips, which was a bonus throughout the run. ![]() I still recall the first softness of James The auditions for Gaveston, Edward's lover, were conducted at Hampstead TheatreĬlub in London, where actors were asked to kiss me. We showed all, as it were, with the aid of a glowing torchlight and dim lighting. In 1969 it was still considered an outrageous play, after all, perhaps, the first drama ever written with a homosexual hero.Įdward's death with a red-hot poker thrust into his bowels had been discretely mimed behind a curtain when Harley Granville Barker played the eponymous role. I may even have suggested myself to play both kings. ![]() I recall he asked Alan Bates, who was busy elsewhere. When Toby Robertson, artistic director of Prospect Theatre, decided to revive our Richard II, he thought to accompany it with his own production of Edward II, a play he had previously directed with Derek Jacobi and other Cambridge undergraduates in 1957. ![]()
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