John Tovey

‘Theatre means joy and sorrow, laughter and tears, comedy and drama. Cooking, too, contains all these elements.’ These words, used by John Tovey to introduce his first book Entertaining with Tovey, apply equally to the life of the man himself although his show at Miller Howe is played to a script designed solely to bring joy and wonder to the evening audiences who have filled his tables since July 1971. For Miller Howe is pure theatre – an exuberant mix of high camp and Hollywood assisted by the natural backcloth of Lake Windermere with the silent majesty of the Langdale Pikes rising like ocean waves above its western shore.