Playing To The Crowd

FOR DR JOHNSON’S HOUSE, 2015

 

photography: jack merriman

 

Directed by Gavin Leisfield and David Smith.

A second commission, written by Katherine, edited and performed by Nick and directed by Patrick Sandford was conceived as a worm hole in time, transporting the voyeur to an eighteenth century salon at Dr Johnson’s house in the West End.

Featuring a heated debate over Garrick’s dubious happy-ending edit of King Lear, an online installation graphically illustrates amendments. Reviewed in the TLS, the play transferred to The Garrick Club and then Black’s in Soho.