Rising Damp – Simon Dunn

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The Theatrical Origins Of Rising Damp

Let’s tell a story through newspaper clippings. Here’s the first, from The Stage on the 4th March 1971. Some sources put this premiere as 1973, but it had its first reading at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1970. The announcement here of the full play gets the writer’s name wrong. It should of course be…

October 16, 2022
Leonard Rossiter Talks Comedy

This is rather interesting for a number of reasons. Leonard Rossiter seems to shut down almost every premise that Burnett posits, but goes on to explain his reasoning. It’s also fascinating how much respect he has for writers, and how his respect for directors seemed to be dwindling.

May 18, 2020

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Proctology: A Bottom Examination

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…