Fat Chance

In 1995 the play Cell Mates by Simon Gray opened at the Albery Theatre in London. It starred Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall and was about the friendship between the spy George Blake and the small time criminal Sean Bourke in Wormwood Scrubs prison. In "Fat Chance" Simon Gray details the trials and tribulations of getting the show on the road. It is the usual show business story of booze and egos and proves what I beieve most people suspect, that show business people in general and stars in particular are best viewed from a distance when they are playing a part.