A Voyage Round My Father
A Voyage Round My Father is an autobiographical play by John Mortimer.
Original text
It was originally a series of sketches transmitted by BBC Radio in 1963, following which it became a television play, with Ian Richardson playing the adult Mortimer and Mark Dignam his blind barrister father. Mortimer then adapted it for the stage. It was first presented at the Greenwich Theatre in 1970 and in a revised version at the Haymarket Theatre in 1971, the latter with Alec Guinness as the father and Jeremy Brett as the son. In 1982 it returned to television, with Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Elizabeth Sellars and Jane Asher in the leading roles.
Performance history in South Africa
1974: In South Africa it was presented by students of the UCT Drama Department, first at the Little Theatre in June and then at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in July. Neville Thomas (Father), Leslie Nott (Mother), Bobby Heaney (Son) and Ingrid Falkenberg (Elizabeth) took the leading roles and Jonathan Rands, Clive Metz, Diane Cox, Etienne Puren, Philip Godawa, Alan Dickinson, Trevor Brazil, Peta van Blydenstein, Margi Lewis and Gillian Harris shared the other 31 other roles between them. The play was directed by Robert Mohr, the lighing was by Brian Evans and the costumes by Helen Rooza.
1984: RAPS staged an amateur production at the Intimate Theatre.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_Round_My_Father
Original theatre programme
Review in Cape Times, 17 June 1974
Review in The Argus, 17 June 1974
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