A Voyage Round My Father
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A Voyage Round My Father is an autobiographical play by John Mortimer, later adapted for television.
The first version of the play appeared as a series of three half-hour sketches for BBC radio in 1963. It then became a television play with Ian Richardson playing Mortimer while Mark Dignam played his blind barrister father. Mortimer then adapted it for the stage and Alec Guinness was the father and Jeremy Brett the son at the Haymarket Theatre in 1971. Mortimer later (1982) turned the play back into a film for television with Laurence Olivier as the father, Alan Bates as the son, Elizabeth Sellars as the mother and Jane Asher as Elizabeth. This production was notable for including the blind actor Esmond Knight in a sighted role, as one judge Mortimer senior faces.
In June 2006, the play was revived at the Donmar Warehouse with Derek Jacobi and Dominic Rowan and transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in September.
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The play was recently performed at the Stamford Arts Centre by the Shoestring Theatre Company. Great reviews were given for the five day running (4-8th of December)in 2007. This version was brilliantly directed by Di Watson. It starred: Ken Walsh as the Father, Terry Kenny as the Son (grown up), Julia Bulimore as Elizabeth and Elliott Hodgkin as the Son (as a boy).
