Theatre Museum in Covent Garden

A Coronation Souvenir issue of the Daily MirrorPhoto by Chris Ha(rris) of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane
Waiting for Godot (on video)
Set Design for Peter Brook's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Who knew this little museum about the West End was tucked in a corner of the Covent Garden Market? I watched a 36 minute video about the Redgraves, one of Britain's royal theatre families. More recently headed by the bisexual Michael Redgrave and his wife, Rachel Kempson, who begat Vannessa, Corin and Lynn. (Ah, Lynnie...) Vanessa, of course, married the bisexual Tony Richardson, and begat Natasha and Joely. There are other marriages and other children and other generations that preceded these. They are all, I mean all, in the theatre in some capacity. Mostly onstage. Mothers have acted with daughters. Aunts with nieces. Sisters together and sisters doin' it for themselves. A remarkable family. The only odd thing I noticed was that the kids (Vanessa, Corin and Lynn) all referred to their parents by their first names. "When Rachel was onstage..." "It was because Michael wanted it that way..." Funny that.

L to R: Rachel, Corin, Michael, Lynn, Vanessa