A Voyage Round My Father
“Eminently watchable”
Guardian
“A combination of spikiness, wit and tenderness”
Daily Mail
“Rupert Everett is blustering and volatile”
The Stage
“Enjoyable”
Telegraph
Growing up in the shadow of a brilliant and eccentric barrister, a man whose tea-time conversation could take in music hall, adultery, evolution, the ridiculous inconvenience of sex, Shakespeare, and the importance of avoiding anything heroic in wartime, the son continually yearns for his father’s love and respect.
A Voyage Round My Father shines a light on this delicate relationship between a young man and his father who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, and introduces us to world of hilarious eccentrics, bumbling headteachers and exasperated relatives.
John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and a barrister in his own right, renowned for his political dramas and creator of Rumpole of The Bailey.
Theatre Royal Bath
Richmond Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cardiff New Theatre, The Festival Theatre Malvern, Chichester Festival Theatre, Nottingham Theatre Royal
Reigate / Director / Daniel
by. John Mortimer
with. Rupert Everett, Julian Wadham, Allegra Marland, John Dougall, Heather Bleasdale, Zena Carswell, Eleanor David, Jack Bardoe, Richard Hodder, Leoni Kibbey and Rob Pomfret.
dir. Richard Eyre
asst dir. Abigail Pickard Price
des. Bob Crowley
light. Hugh Vanstone & Sam Waddington
sound. John Leonard
composer. Stephen Warbeck
casting. Ginny Schiller
