'I usually produce a blueprint which is there to be destroyed... the anarchic process is very important.'
(Peter Wood, director, at the start of rehearsals for On the Razzle at the National Theatre)

Ronald Hayman follows the making of this farce through from early plotting to late changes With Peter Wood, Felicity Kendal, Dinsdale Landen and other members of the cast. And Tom Stoppard discusses his adaptation of Nestroy's Einem Jux will er sich machen: 'The point wasn't to transpose intact Nestroy into English, the point was to do in English what he'd done, which is a very different thing.'

(Way Upstream Alan Ayckbourn's new play at Scarborough: next Saturday at 10.0 pm)