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,...
SLADE and STRINDBERG
No. Not Julian, but his first cousin, playwright and librettist Laurie Slade. Laurie has recently written the libretto for a one act chamber opera ‘Juliana’ based on Strindberg’s play ‘Miss Julie’ . The music for the opera has been composed by Joseph Phibbs., described recently by BBC Music Magazine as ‘one...
KATIE MOORE WINS MORE ACCLAIM
Katie Moore has had a busy acting life since she won the first Julian Slade Award in 2008. Twice (2011 and 2013) she was highly praised in the lead part of Jane in the London Riverside Studios production of ‘Salad Days’. Twice she has played key parts and attracted...