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Success is on the cards for Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s latest sprawling historical epic. Kate Griffin talked to her

Success is on the cards for Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s latest sprawling historical epic. Kate Griffin talked to her

John Pearson Comedy promoter Clara Heimerdinger. - Credit: Jonathan Sebire As the Zoom window opens on my laptop, up pops that familiar grid of heads in boxes. But for tonight’s meeting, their faces are all unfamiliar. There’s some bloke in full Santa costume, replete with cotton wool beard. A couple sit behind their empty couch and peek around it at their webcam (practising extreme socially distancing, it transpires). Then there’s the small, grinning, bespectacled head of a woman bobbin...

John Pearson Comedy promoter Clara Heimerdinger. - Credit: Jonathan Sebire As the Zoom window opens on my laptop, up pops that familiar grid of heads in boxes. But for tonight’s meeting, their faces are all unfamiliar. There’s some bloke in full Santa costume, replete with cotton wool beard. A couple sit behind their empty couch and peek around it at their webcam (practising extreme socially distancing, it transpires). Then there’s the small, grinning, bespectacled head of a woman bobbin...

John Pearson Comedy promoter Clara Heimerdinger. - Credit: Jonathan Sebire As the Zoom window opens on my laptop, up pops that familiar grid of heads in boxes. But for tonight’s meeting, their faces are all unfamiliar. There’s some bloke in full Santa costume, replete with cotton wool beard. A couple sit behind their empty couch and peek around it at their webcam (practising extreme socially distancing, it transpires). Then there’s the small, grinning, bespectacled head of a woman bobbin...