It was the opening night of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell at The Coach & Horses pub in Soho last night. The play first ran in 1989, and is now showing at the very pub where Bernard spent the majority of his waking hours.
Aside from propping up the bar at the Coach, Bernard wrote a legendary weekly column, Low Life, for The Spectator in the seventies and eighties. It detailed Bernard’s exploits around Soho, alongside luminaries of the age like Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and Dylan Thomas, who also happened to be his drinking partners.
