A mountain of boots and Graham Stark atop a ladder with kilted actor John Bluthal close behind . This is a scene from todays rehearsal of , ' The Bed Sitting Room ' , which opens at the Mermaid Theatre , London . The play about a peer who finds himself turning into a bed - sitting room after an atomic war , is written by John Antrobus and ex - Goon , Spike Milligan . 30th January , 1963