Performed in a Dance from
London to Norwich
With Cecil Trouncer as William Kemp
Contemporary music arranged by Anthony Bernard, and played by the London Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Arnold Goldsbrough, with songs by the Con Moto Choir. Morris dances played by Carl Dolmetsch and members of the English Folk Dance Society
Produced by Leonard Cottrell
William Kemp was a comic actor of high reputation on the Elizabethan stage, and acted in several of Shakespeare's plays. In 1599 he attracted much attention by dancing the Morris from London to Norwich, and, in the following year, published a curious pamphlet describing his feat. This dramatised reconstruction by Terence Tiller is based upon Kemp's own account.