The Play What I Wrote

The Play What I Wrote, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 2003

Cast: Joseph Alessi, Ben Keaton, Toby Sedgwick

Writers: Hamish McColl, Sean Foley, Eddie Braden

Director: Michael Gyngell

My first thought when I saw this was to wonder if it was the show where each night a different celebrity played a part, but there's no suggestion of that in the programme so I assume I'm confusing it with something else. It's about Morecombe & Wise who I grew up watching, because in the seventies there was no choice: you watched TV as a family, and you watched whatever was popular. It hasn't left me with any feelings about them one way or another - I know people love them, Victoria Wood, for instance, who played the mother of one of them in a TV drama, but I'm ambivalent.