Really fun brief today – a conversation between two non-fictional people that could never have met. But more than just two characters.

Set it in a rehearsal room at the National in 1963 with Olivier’s production of Hamlet at the newly formed National Theatre directing Peter O’Toole as Hamlet, Robert Stephenson as Horatio and Frank Finlay as the grave digger. They’re on the graveyard scene and it’s not going well. They keep trying different skulls to see if it helps when the third skull re-animates into William Shakespeare who berates them for a boring version of Hamlet and tries to get Larry to work on a new play called “Tits and Booze” that will be “better than Falstaff!”.

Bewildered, as Peter and Will head off to find a pub, Larry laments to Robert… “I Knew Him?”