Awake and Sing!

Went to the Almeida last night to see their new production, Awake and Sing, with Stockard Channing playing the Jewish mother to perfection. I loved the show, having had rather a bad run lately, but my hero of the night was John Rogan who played the grandfather and was in a wheelchair. None of us realised until the curtain call that he really was in a wheelchair, having suffered the most appalling accident falling down the escalator at a tube station. He thought he would never work again, and this is the first thing he has done since that accident. He was quite outstanding, and I hope we will see him on the stage again.