Ron Gordon – Sod’s opera

You socialise when you’re eating, you’re talking to each other, you’re talking about what the movies is going to be that evening or who we’re playing games against that evening. Are we doing the Sod’s Opera, how’s that going?

Simon: What’s the Sod’s Opera?

It’s when we put on effectively a pantomime. We did one on Resolution where it was absolutely brilliant, but it caused a few problems because some of the guys dressed up as women and they looked very attractive. And they get together, and they just do … we go in the four ends of the forward compartment …

Simon: I was wondering where the Theatre was.

Yeah, it’s the big Junior Rates Dining Hall and the guys would do their act whatever it was, Sod’s Opera there and this time it was ‘Blackie’ Blackmoore, Gordon Blackmoore was on the organ which was operated by a vacuum cleaner blowing the air into it.