My diary entry for that day reads:
Saturday 15 March 1986 – Rose quite late – went to library etc. with dad . Met Bobbie in afternoon for tea -> Kings Head for meal+ show “A Taste of Orton”. Went to Garfunkles for ice bowl – got home late.
According to The Stage earlier that year, A Taste Of Orton was originally a production in the Young Vic Studio.
This would have been our/my first visit to the King’s Head Theatre in Islington, which specialised in such “dinner and show” stuff.
I remember very much enjoying this double bill of short plays. Gorilla In the Roses was about Joe Orton’s anarchic pranks involving hoax letters and defacing library books, while Funeral Games is an actual Orton short play, which was even more to our taste [did you see what I did there], than Gorilla, as I recall it.
The meal was also only somewhat to our taste – I think the quality of the food at the King’s Head improved over the decades, but it was still a bit school-dinners-ish in the mid 1980s.
That might explain our crazy craving for ice cream after the show, despite having had tea before the show and dinner during.
Kids, eh? Well, 20-somethings, anyway.
For the completists amongst us (probably just me) here are the diary entries for the next few days:
Sunday 16 March 1986 – Rose quite early despite late night. Went to Grandma Jenny’s in afternoon. Had a fairly early night.
Monday 17 March 1986 – 1st day back at work – decorators in etc. Met Caroline for lunch – Venice Place. Went to Concert Artistes’ [Association] in afternoon. Lazy evening in.
Tuesday 18 March 1986 – Busy day at work. Stayed in eve.
Wednesday 19 March 1986 – Work OK. Stayed in eve – did homework.
Thursday 20 March 1986 – Quietish day at work. Stayed in eve – doing dad’s accounts etc.
Friday 21 March 1986 – Busy day at office etc. Stayed in evening.