Letter: Shouts of 'Rubbish!' greeted Ann Jellicoe's The Sport of My Mad Mother by Paul Bailey

The first night of Ann Jellicoe's The Sport of My Mad Mother at the Royal Court in the spring of 1958 was a truly riotous affair. I was one of the original cast, alongside Wendy Craig, Philip Locke, Sheila Ballantine and Avril Elgar. We wore leather and spoke blank verse and street rhymes with cockney accents. We constituted the most avant-garde gang that had ever appeared in the English theatre. We loved the play, a…

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