Oh those salad days ...

In 1979, Lesley Ferris, Jan Dalley, and I started up the Mouth and Trousers theatre company and created a theatre venue above a pub, the York and Albany, in Camden Town, North London. We got a grant from Camden council to put a tier of wooden bench seats into an empty rectangular room and I wired a six-channel dimmer board into a bunch of lights, and for nearly four years we ran the space as a growingly successful venue on the London fringe, until the brewers who owned the pub decided to close it and us with it. Mostly, the shows we produced were brought in by other companies, but a few of the plays we produced were written by us. I wrote the following, the first of which was performed at our venue.

Sheets
performed: York & Albany, 1979
directed by John Fletcher

I'm the Original
performed: various venues, 1979
directed by Lesley Ferris

Hottentot Venus
Rehearsed reading: Half Moon Theatre 1981
directed by Rob Walker

Love Bombs
performed: Southampton University 1982
directed by Daniel Machover

I-and-I
monologue for three voices -- performed Palo Alto 1998
(un)directed by self

Eisenstein's Flight
radio play
to be performed: Lima, Ohio 2003
directed by Maria Ignatieva

Urschrift
dialogue for two aliens