At 07,45 on May 28 2020 BBC ‘Breakfast’ on Radio 3 were kind enough to acknowledge that, if Julian Slade was still alive, he would have been 90 years old on that day. The programme marked the occasion by playing ‘The Time of My Life’, one of his best loved (and most appropriate) songs...
ADRIAN SLADE: A Biographical Note
ADRIAN, Julian Slade’s younger brother, read Law at Cambridge but most of his spare time was spent acting or writing and performing satirical songs in cabaret venues – Footlights ‘Smokers-, college and private dance cabarets and , later, clubs, public occasions (sometimes with Julian) and Liberal Party conferences. He was...
JULIAN’S GREAT NEPHEW IN LONDON AND EDINBURGH
ARCHIE HENDERSON composes highly original music. He pens funny lyrics and stand-up patter. At University he was a leading member of the Cambridge Footlights cabaret team. In other words there are already plenty of theatrical parallels between ARCHIE HENDERSON and his late great uncle JULIAN SLADE. The only big difference...
STAND-UP RUPERT SLADE!
RUPERT SLADE Julian’s nephew, came back from travelling in 1987 with a couple of comical poems. Within a few months he was performing what would now be called slam poetry all over London. He was the MC/co-creator of the singer songwriter’s club God’s Little Joke in Clapham old town...
PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE’S 90TH YEAR
On February 17th 2019 Dame Patricia Rutledge, a long time supporter of theatre in Bristol, celebrated her 90th birthday. The Slade family and all others associated with this website, in particular the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she and Julian first met nearly seventy years ago, sent her their...
THE 2018 ‘SALAD DAYS’ TOUR
Not even in its 1950s heyday did any production of Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds ‘Salad Days’ tour anywhere for as long as 11 weeks, visiting 11 different well known towns and their principal theatres,...
JANE WENHAM. A VERY SAD LOSS
JANE WENHAM (1927- 2018) Jane, who very sadly died in November, was an actress and singer of enormous talent whose performances will always be remembered by, among many other, Bristol audiences and members of the the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company of the early and mid...
‘SALAD DAYS’ DELIGHTS AGAIN
REVIEW EXCERPTS FRINGEREVIEW UK 2018 (Brighton Theatre Royal Sept 5-8) ‘It’s the happiest post war show……..For pure silliness Broadway could never dream up anything like this. Two appealing and fresh young graduates, Tim and Jane, after a choral send off (from university) agree to meet to discuss how to avoid their pre-ordained fates,...