A few years ago, a small set of Faire/Dickens folk went to a restaurant called 1520 A. D. attracted by the promise of an improv dinner theater experience. Soon Billy Scudder, along with friends from Faire J. Paul Moore, playing Henry VIII, and Q , playing Master Bates the innkeeper, and Joseph Derry, the magician had taken over the production attracted huge crowds eager to sing camp fire classics such as She’s a Coming Around the Mountain When She Comes, and I’m Henry the 8th I Am, or at least publicly fake it lest be caught as non-singer and be cast in the stocks place in a prominent place in the restaurant and them pelted with dinner rolls.             

In this podcast, Billy speaks of the spirit of the place and the how and the process of improv gave the place an authenticity that went beyond historical to create a reality unique to that moment.

Former cast members are urged to contact this website and contribute to this oral history.