On press night, I called Mog (who was wrestling the whiskey away from her one-year-old man-child) and we shouted excitedly at each other about the jokes that worked, the ones that died and the bits that we never thought we would get away with.
About a hundred years ago, I imagine the writers of that famous Covent Garden panto had a similar shouted conversation: ‘We put an elephant in it! AGHaHahahahah! …where’s it going to sleep?’
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 Joel Horwood is the co-writer for CINDERELLA at the Lyric Hammersmith. Other theatre includes: Jekyll and Hyde (ish) (Latitude Festival, Lyric Hammersmith); Dick Whittington and his Cat (Lyric Hammersmith); Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith); Mikey The Pikey (Pleasance, Edinburgh – Cameron Mackintosh Award); Food (Fringe First Award-winner); Stoppud Fecken Animals (Traverse); I Caught Crabs in Walberswick (Pleasance, Edinburgh/Bush); All The Little Things We Crushed (Almeida), Inches Apart (Theatre 503 – Old Vic New Voices Award); Is Everyone OK? (UK tour); Beyond The Frontline (Lowry); The Count of Monte Cristo (West Yorkshire Playhouse); It's About Time (Latitude Festival); I [heart] Peterborough (Eastern Angles). TV includes: Skins. |
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