A Voyage Round My Father
John Mortimer’s autobiographical play is the affectionate portrait of a son’s relationship with his father.
Mortimer wrote: “I grew up the only child of a blind barrister and a mother who devoted her life to caring for him, in what was then a remote part of the Chiltern Hills. After my father’s death I began to write scenes about growing up with him and finally turned them into a play . . . [and] in what I read and what I write, and perhaps in my general attitude to life, it is his standards that I still refer to because he taught me everything”
His father, the law, England, Dickens, and Shakespeare all come together when the old man turns conversation into cross-examination, sings snatches of music hall songs, envisages what dinner might have been like with the Macbeths, and combines it with intransigent middle class eccentricity.
- Father
- Son
- Mother
- Elizabeth
- Boy / Grandson
- Iris / Granddaughter
- Iris / Granddaughter
- Headmaster / George / Judges
- Ham / Boustead / Sparks / Morrow
- Ringer / Thong / Director
- Cox / Doris / Witness
- Baker / 1st ATS
- Japhet / 2nd ATS / Miss Ferguson
- Director
- Assistant Director
- Stage Manager
- Set Build
- Lighting Design
- Lighting Crew
- Lighting Crew
- Lighting Crew
- Lighting Crew
- Projections
- Projections
- Sound Design
- Sound Crew
- Sound Crew
- Props
- Costumes
- Costumes
- Prompt