Paul Cunningham (Edward Sheldon) and Laurie Brown (John Gielgud). Photograph by Eamonn McGoldrick
“You only live twice, or so it seems/One life for yourself and one for your dreams.”
Despite its overt 1930s New York staging, and period music, I couldn’t help but watch Garry Robson’s “fictionalised account” — of the real-life meeting between the actor John Gielgud and the blind, paralysed playwright Edward Sheldon — with Nancy Sinatra singing her James Bond title song in the back of my mind. For this was definitely a story about how we can hide behind the distinctions we all make between our public and private lives…
First published by Disability Arts Online; read more here.
