…he wrote with such a maniacal energy and command of stagecraft that he was considered to be one of the funniest of all playwrights.”
JEFFREY H. HUBERMAN
Late Victorian Farce
MARK MELFORD actor and author in Queen Victoria’s England, was a prolific writer for the legitimate stage, a master of the twenty-minute music hall sketch, and an adventurer in the emerging world of British silent film-making.
This is the biography of a self-confessed crank and occasional genius living through a vibrant period of British theatre—a time of great social, technological and political change. A history of the times unfolds from the perspective of one who made the most of his eclectic talents.
Meet the characters in Mark Melfords's life
Discover the world of Theatre and Music Hall
You are invited to become a member of the audience at Covent Garden in 1877, to join Mark on the darkest of nights in a Midhurst poorhouse, to experience the perils of early motoring, and to discover a life spent behind the footlights.
