March 6th to June 1978 - Actress Jane Asher, as doctor Scott, and Tom Conti as Ken Harrison acting in a theatrical production of “Whose Life is it Anyway?”, London (opened at the Mermaid Theatre, transferred at The Savoy).

March 1st, 1978 - Actress Jane Asher, as doctor Scott, listens to actor Tom Conti's chest with a stethoscope acting in a theatrical production rehearsal of "Whose Life is it Anyway?", Mermaid Theatre, London.

(Photo by Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a play by Brian Clark adapted from his 1972 television play of the same title. The stage version premièred in 1978 at the Mermaid Theatre in London, and subsequently opened on Broadway in 1979. The play involves a sculptor who is paralysed.

Set in a hospital room, the action revolves around Ken Harrison (Claire Harrison in some later productions), a sculptor by profession, who was paralysed from the neck down (quadriplegia) in a car accident and is determined to be allowed to die. Clark presents arguments both in favour of and opposing euthanasia and to what extent government should be allowed to interfere in the life of a private citizen. In portraying Ken as an intelligent man with a useless body, he leaves the audience with conflicting feelings about his desire to end his life.

November 7th, 1978

June 1978 - Jane Asher at the cover of tatler magazine. Photo by Willie Christie.

November 7, 1978 - Actress Jane Asher having her hair cut by hairdresser Keith Wainwright, London.

She had her hair cut for her lead role on the London Stage in the annual classic “Peter Pan”. She opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre starting on December 20th, 1978.