John Bull

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Observations

  1. On 3rd October 2021 at 9:09 p.m., LT noted:

    This was my first ‘proper’ job as a young actor! I was so excited and happy to be a part of that fantastic cast and had a wonderful time. Everyone was so kind and helpful and dear Roger Rees, RIP, was wonderful to work for and an utterly delightful and charming man. I played a Cornish servant called John and also composed and played music for the show, some recorded and most live. I also had one of the most ridiculously comic accidents one night while making a high speed entrance on the heavily raked stage! As David Rintoul shouted my name, I used to have to run from the wings, stage right, jump up onto the decking sloped stage, which was of course steeply raked down towards the audience, but for me was at a crazy angle under my feet as I ran across towards a centre doorway entrance, and then time it so I would skid into view, stop bang in the doorway and calmly answer “you called my lord?” It was quite a funny entrance as it was and always got a nice little laugh. David was facing down stage, so I would suddenly appear up stage behind him. This particular night, going flat out, as I skidded, I hit a patch of polished/burnished wax on the floor right across the doorway (which was dropped every night from candelabra in the finale song and despite it being cleaned up, had by now in the run, left a shiny residue like ice!) As I tried to stop, my legs shot out from under me and I passed the doorway completely horizontal, travelling at speed, and went straight off the other side of the stage and ended up hitting the DSM’s desk with a whollop! It really hurt and took the skin of my right hip, but I got to my feet, hobbled back to the doorway and then, in genuine pain and holding my hip, said the line. David was totally unaware of what had just happened as he was facing D/S, but the audience were crying with laughter, clapping and obviously were convinced it was a genuine stunt entrance! It took a few moments for the audience to calm down and allow David to get his lines out. I wish I could have seen what it looked like from out front! It was a brilliant fun production with a wonderful and very happy cast and is still a hugely important part of my early career which I remember with great fondness.

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