Michael Hordern, who was very old and almost... (overlapping speech 0:16:53) ... unfortunately, I think it was probably his last production - he had to stay in the bed that he actually performed in because we couldn't get him into a hotel because we couldn't [0:17:04]...

Really?

...location

And was that place a hotel at the time?

No.

Because it has been a hotel since, hasn't it?

No, I think it was somebody's house at the time, but he just stayed there. And he couldn't remember his lines, so we had to write all him lines on idiot boards and stand in front of him, then pass them over our heads and things like that. Poor Michael.

Ref Code: I-03-T-03. Title: Transcript extract from an interview with Julie Edwards, Production Manager for Middlemarch. P. 21, where Edwards describes the support provided by the crew to assist octogenarian, Sir Michael Hordern (Featherstone). Date: 2022-04-01 Format: .png Source: D/104 Papers of Transforming Middlemarch De Montfort University Special Collections, UK. D/104 https://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk/records/D/104