Mander & Mitchenson
Sounds like an old Music Hall act, doesn’t it. And you wouldn’t be far off at that. Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson were a pair of young actors who, when they met in the London Docklands Settlement...
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The Sorrows of Satan
I am still hugely enjoying the Greenwich Theatre Book which is currently on loan to me. Rather than go into the theatre’s history or an account of the rebuild today, though, my eye was drawn to an...
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The Clarence Music Hall
Yup folks, I’m still enjoying the Greenwich Theatre Book – an incredibly slim volume that punches above its weight and provides a really excellent base for further digging. It’s made all the more...
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Green-Gowned in Greenwich Park
At Greenwich lies the Scene, where many a Lass Has been Green-gown’d upon the tender Grass If Flamstead’s Stars would make a true Report Our City’s Breeds much mended by the Court & etc. Back in...
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First Night Jitters
“Sir, I thought it had been better.” Sam Johnson’s characteristically honest reason for leaving the room when someone started reading his only play, Irene, at a country house party in 1780. Today...
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