Martin Jacques

Hello David,

Of course we all remember you and your contribution to Bitter Sweet and Camelot. Thanks for your post, I read it out to mum over the phone this evening and she was very interested to reminisce about both plays having been involved in both of them as I was with Camelot – it being the first Grange play I was ever involved in aged 13. I still remember being horrified at having to wear those red tights on stage as the page – you’re very self-conscious at that age!

Camelot was a terrific experience to be involved with, and I remember watching my mother in Bitter Sweet and thinking how good it was as a young lad.

I remember the after show parties at the Grange as lively affairs. At the Camelot one, Cliff who played Mordred, rewrote the theme tune lyrics for us to sing to Fred and Val and they went something like this if I recall them:

Come a lot. To The Grange a lot.
You know they do it rather well.

and then later:

In short there’s simply not.
Much time to learn the plot.
So it must be the magic that our Val and Fred have got!

Crikey, I can still recall these remnants after all those years, and I’m nearly fifty now!

I hope you’re keeping well David. Mother, father and Lindsay also send their regards.

All good wishes.

Martin Jacques