The Judge by John Mortimer - 1968

St Martin's Theatre Company Melbourne

Cast: Norman Kaye, Leia Blake, Sandy Gore, Kenric Hudson, John Wregg, Kevin Colebrook, Kevin Howard, Ray Angell, Brian Moll

Directors: Irene Mitchell, Peter Randall, George Fairfax

The Judge is an interesting play inasmuch as it depends neither on slick, sophisticated dialogue nor perplexing subtleties nor shock tactics.

Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author. With weak eyes and doubtful lungs, Mortimer was classified as medically unfit for military service in World War II. He worked for the Crown Film Unit under Laurie Lee, writing scripts for propaganda documentaries. Mortimer is best remembered for creating a barrister named Horace Rumpole, inspired by his father Clifford,whose speciality is defending those accused of crime in London's Old Bailey. Mortimer created Rumpole for a BBC Play For Today in 1975. Although not Mortimer's first choice of actor (in an interview on the DVD set, he said he wanted Alistair Sim -- "but he was dead"), Leo McKern played the character with gusto and proved popular; accordingly, the idea was developed into a series, Rumpole of the Bailey, for Thames Television in which McKern again took the lead role. Mortimer also wrote a series of Rumpole books. In September–October 2003, BBC Radio 4 broadcast four new 45-minute Rumpole plays by Mortimer with Timothy West in the title role. Mortimer also dramatised many of the real-life cases of the barrister Edward Marshall-Hall in a radio series featuring former Doctor Who star Tom Baker as the protagonist.

This Souvenir Program is from the 1968 Australian Production 

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