Time and Place

Mark Sheridan is 'stage-struck' and joins Beerbohm Tree's company as an unpaid 'walk-on'. He tells the story of his two years in the company and his relationship with Esmond, a young actor. There are flashbacks to his earlier life :his childhood in China, his schooldays in Paris, visits to London, his university days in Cambridge, 18 months in St Petersburg where he witnesses the beginning of the 1905 revolution. It is a story about the theatre, the real world of sexuality and history on which the theatre feeds.