I Have been going through old photographs the last few days –the wet weather has been perfect for that sort of thing– and came across this picture from a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night I performed in way back in 1992 with The Oslo Players. This particular photograph is from a special performance at the British Embassy in Oslo. Unfortunately no one had told the ambassador that there was a sword fight in the play, and he went quite white during the performance -the reason being the stage's proximity to the portrait of Queen Elizabeth in the background. He afterwards told us that the Princess Royal (Princess Anne) was staying at the embassy a day or two later. I couldn't help but wonder what she would have thought if she had arrived to find the picture of her mother slashed! Fortunately my fencing skills proved adequate enough to avoid disgrace! I'm not quite sure about that wig though...
