Wren swan song

A trawl through BD’s archive on Christopher Wren unearthed publicity material for a short-lived musical entitled Wren.The musical, which ran at The Mayfair Theatre in 1978, was apparently based on “the events during his 91-year life”. But it gets stranger. The actor playing Wren, Steven Grives, went on to work ...

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