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Last Update:
Friday 20th
May, 2005 |
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| Python and playwright in Roundhouse fundraiser |
THE Chalk Farm Roundhouse
is £32,000 nearer to its target of £28m this week
thanks to an evening’s work by Camden Town playwright
Alan Bennett.
Mr Bennett was joined by former Monty Python star Michael
Palin on stage at the Prince of Wales theatre to raise cash
to finish the job of turning the run down Victorian train
shed into an arts venue.
Mr Palin, who lives in Gospel Oak, revealed he had been at
the Roundhouse when he was an aspiring actor in the 1960s
– and he was pleased to see the accountant had changed.
He said how he expected to meet a man in a suit and instead
was introduced to a hippie smoking cannabis.
Mr Bennett, who read from his diaries to a full house who
had paid up to £50 for tickets, said of young people:
“They make a lot of noise and I can’t really understand
what they say.
“But I admire them for being able to pee in the street.
I need absolute seclusion.”
Mr Bennett, 71, added that he was still cycling from his home
in Camden Town, to do his chores – and old age won’t
stop him, only a car accident would.
“It’s the other cyclists that scare me –
the ones where man and machine seem moulded together into
one object,” he mused.
Both men said they wanted to see a bike path opened through
Regent’s Park to prevent them breaking the law on their
trips into town.
n To sponsor part of the Roundhouse call 020 7424 9991 or
email info@round
house.org.uk. |
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