A Room With a Revue
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, May 1975
CAST
Robin Hodgkinson
Godfrey Keller
Rob Orchard
David Paget
Mike Philippson
Guy Pilch
Helen Pocock
Robin Seavill
Denise Wheatley
WRITTEN BY
Anne Covington, Noël Coward, Godfrey Keller, Iain Moss, Rob Orchard, Guy Pilch, Helen Pocock, Robin Seavill, William Shakespeare
MUSIC
Nick May
Robin Seavill
STAGE CREW
Mark King, Stephanie Lindsay, Rita Nield, Alison Norie, Frances Stones
TECHNICAL CREW
Ed Constable, Peter Gilyard-Beer, Steve Roberts
DIRECTED BY
Iain Moss & Denise Wheatley
PS
A Room With a Revue was the very first proper show I had anything to do with. The script conferences formed the highlight of my week leading up to it, and I was an avid pupil of the more experienced writers and performers who were now in their second year and seemed to be in their element. We would turn up with sketches, read them out to the team assembled around the big conference table, and hope they would get a laugh. I can no longer remember whether it was any good or not. I did a couple of songs. At one point, in the station platform sketch, the director told me to put my arm round the shoulder of a girl cast member. I was reluctant not only because girls were still foreign territory to me, but because she had badly sunburnt shoulders and I didn’t want to cause her discomfort. The Bernard Sunley Building in St Catherine’s College where we were performing was a huge airy space of blond wood filled with sunshine. My parents were the first to take their seats in the auditorium on opening night. They were shy too, and I couldn’t have been prouder of them.