Saigon Rose announcement Mon, Mar 1, 1993 – 26 · The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) · Newspapers.com
The “programme” – or rather the single sheet of printed A4 you tended to get at the Orange Tree Room – went missing for this show, which is a shame.
It was one of three plays we went to see in that room above the Orange Tree Pub, which they kept going as a second venue for a while but stopped using I think later that year.
This was Janie’s and my first visit to The Orange Tree together…my first visit there full stop.
I was thrilled to encounter Ian Angus Wilkie in that cast. He had been in the cast of NewsRevue late spring the previous year and had been one of the first professional performers to perform one of my lyrics.
California Here I Go, NewsRevue Lyric, 23 April 1992
Chris Stanton still speaks of Ian Angus Wilkie as one of the best comedy actors with whom he has ever worked.
Despite the antiquity of this visit, I can find two reviews on-line:
Because there are no other resources, I have scraped the above pieces, for just in case; Ian’s – click here...or Sarah’s – click here,
I cannot reconstruct the whole cast and creatives list, but we can ascertain that the cast included:
- Michael Higgs;
- Henrietta Garden;
- Mairéad Carty;
- Ian Angus Wilkie.
Rachel Kavanaugh directed.
I remember really liking this play and the production and really liking The Orange Tree Room. It reminded me a bit of The Gate, a small fringe venue of which I was already fond.
Did they really make more money turning that prime space into hotel rooms?…
…no need to answer that question.