‘Roger Moore collapsed one night. I thought he’d died’: how we made The Play What I Wrote

Ralph Fiennes strode into the dressing room and said he loved the show - we booked him there and then. The whole thing was very kick-bollocks-scramble'

Sean Foley, co-writer and performer

It was all [producer] David Pugh's fault. In 1988 I'd set up a small two-person theatre company, The Right Size, with Hamish McColl, creating work that was somewhere between European physical theatre and British variety. We'd had some success; one of our shows had transferred to the West End. One day in 2001, David called us in and said, I want you to make a show about Morecambe and Wise."