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Article: Voyage round my childhood; Watching Alec Guinness, Laurence Olivier and now, in the Donmar's revival, Derek Jacobi play him on stage brings back vivid memories of his larger-than-life blind barrister father, says John Mortimer.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2006
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Byline: JOHN MORTIMER
AFTER my father's death, I began to write pieces about him, some of which were broadcast, and I finally turned them into a play. I have been hugely happy these past few weeks, visiting the large empty chapel in Islington for rehearsals for the Donmar's revival, and hearing Derek Jacobi produce my father's rages, which were never at the fate which had taken away his eyesight but at small matters such as cold plates, earwigs and soft-boiled eggs. At these rehearsals I could make a voyage back to my childhood, as the only child of an eccentric, blind barrister.
As far as possible, he ignored his blindness. He never carried a white ...
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