When Ken was at the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, he staged "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" as an opera, with music by Camilla Saunders. As it was also performed at the Everyman and the ICA, I felt it was important to try to have a production of it, so on Friday we improvised it at Mellomello cafe.
Our orchestra was Joe Quillin on Keyboards and Jeff Merrifield on pocket trumpet, and the show starred Jack Darrell as Charles, Jud Charlton and Laura Spark as his parents, Richard Helm as Doctor Willett and Tall Paul Robinson as Doctor Allen. However, it was entirely improvised, with me reading out bits of the synopsis from the original Everyman programme. It was great fun, and I feel I should apologise profusely to Camilla. Highlights were Laura's aria "What are we going to do about Charles?" and the occult book reading scene between Paul and Jack.
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