Theatre work

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Clybourne Park (26th August-2nd October 2010) as Kosher Harry
In 1959 Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bed at a knock-down price. This enables the first Black family to move into the neighbourhood, creating ripples of discontent amongst the cosy white urbanites of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by Lindsey and Steve whose plans to raze the house and start again is met with a similar response. Are the issues festering beneath the floorboards actually the same fifty years on?

The last laugh (feb 19th-24th 2009) as the writer
The Last Laugh (German: Der letzte Mann) is a German 1924 silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer which was based on a Broadway play by Charles W. Goddard. It is the most famous example of the short-lived Kammerspiel or "chamber-drama" genre.

Jannings' character, the doorman for a famous hotel, is demoted to washroom (bathroom) attendant, as he is considered too old and infirm to be the image of the hotel. He tries to conceal his demotion from his friends and family, but to his shame, he is discovered. His friends, thinking he has lied to them all along about his prestigious job, taunt him mercilessly while his family rejects him out of shame. The man, shocked and in incredible grief, returns to the hotel to sleep in the bathroom where he works. The only person to be kind towards him is the night watchman, who covers him with his coat as he falls asleep.

Following this comes the film's only title card, which says: "Here the story should really end, for, in real life, the forlorn old man would have little to look forward to but death. The author took pity on him and has provided a quite improbable epilogue."

At the end, the doorman inherits a fortune and is able to dine happily at the same hotel he used to work for.

The exonerated (21st Feb – 11th June 2006) as Kerry Max-Cook

Written by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank the play dramatizes the stories of six people who had been wrongfully convicted of murder, but were later exonerated and freed after varying years of imprisonment, where many were subjected to further brutality and degradation. This was also made into a film.

Blue eyes and heels (12th Oct - 5th Nov 2005) as Duncan

Written by Toby Whithouse, this new play offers a hilarious take on the world of modern media in which an ambitious TV producer is looking to bring live wrestling back to the small screen.

Kosher Harry (Apr – May 2002) as the man

Kosher Harry is a surreal comedy set in a kosher restaurant in St John's Wood. Do not be misled: this is not a quaint little sitcom with lots of mild, Jewish jokes about goings-on in the High Street.

The comedians (2001) as Phil Murray

Comedians is a play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening school in a working-class neighborhood, for aspiring comedians, and contains political undertones. It was written for the theatre, and first appeared in 1975 at London's National Theatre

Jump Mr. Malinoff, Jump (2000) as Dougie

Written by Tony Whitehouse it's a wonderfully funny, dark yet humane affair in which a visitor from the past provokes a series of revelations that leave the Malinoff family in tatters. Silence as Ethelred the Unready

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Angela Carters Cinderella (1998) as Buttons

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Woman in black (1989) as the actor

Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation for the stage remains entirely true to the book itself and uses much of Susan Hill's own descriptive writing and dialogue, while transforming the novel into a totally gripping piece of theatre.

Jump to cow heaven (1997) Winner of the top theatre prize, Edinburgh Festival 1997

Set in December 1966, Jump to Cow Heaven is a gripping triumph of tension and suspense, the winner of the Fringe First Award for best new play at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival. In a small basement flat in London's East End, Frankie 'The Mad Axe Man' Mitchell is in hiding, having just been sprung from Dartmoor prison by the Kray Twins. With only his minder John for company and Lisa, a prostitute provided by the Twins to see to his needs, Frank awaits the car that will take him to a new life in the country. But as the days go by and Christmas approaches, Frank's frustration leads him close to the breaking point. On the night before Christmas he disappears and the lips of everyone are sealed. "A cracker of a play". [Daily Telegraph] The wasp factory (1997) as Frank

The 'Wasp Factory' of the title is a huge clock face encased in a glass box and salvaged from the local dump. Behind each of the 12 numerals is a trap which leads to a different ritual death (for example burning, crushing, or drowning in Frank's urine) for the wasp that Frank puts into the hole at the center. Frank believes the death 'chosen' by the wasp predicts something about the future.

Dealing with Claire (1996) as Ashley/ Vittorio/ Toby

Dealing With Clair is based on the true story of Suzy Lamplugh, a young estate agent who disappeared after taking a customer to visit a property.It is far more than a simple mystery story. It also makes significant social comment on life in Thatcherite Britain in the late 1980s. Property prices are spiralling and throughout, the yuppie husband and wife, played by Tom McDonnell and Jackie Bolton, who are trying to sell their house have moral decisions to take. In a world of greed should they gazump their disabled buyer? The answer is inevitable.

A going concern as Tony

The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of the firm. The play is at once a lament for the passing of an industrial age, a retelling of the classic mythical struggle between fathers and sons and a thoroughly entertaining story

Swamp city as Sonny

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Mother courage and her children

The name of the central character, Mother Courage, is drawn from the picaresque writings of the seventeenth-century German writer, Grimmelshausen, whose central character in the early short novel, The Runagate Courage, also struggles and connives her way through the Thirty Years' War in Germany and Poland, but otherwise the story is mostly Brecht's, in collaboration with Steffin.

The action of the play takes place over the course of 12 years (1624 to 1636), represented in 12 scenes. Some give a sense of Courage's career without being given enough time to develop sentimental feelings and empathize with any of the characters. Meanwhile, Mother Courage is not depicted as a noble character – here the Brechtian epic theatre sets itself apart from the ancient Greek tragedies in which the heroes are far above the average. With the same alienating effect, the ending of Brecht's play does not arouse our desire to imitate the main character, Mother Courage.

Mother Courage is among Brecht's most famous plays, and has been called by some to be the greatest play of the 20th century. His work attempts to show the dreadfulness of war and the idea that virtues are not rewarded in corrupt times. He used an epic structure so that the audience focuses on the issues being displayed rather than getting involved with the characters and emotions. Epic plays are of a very distinct genre and are typical of Brecht; a strong case could be made that he invented the form.

Volpone

Volpone, a Venetian gentleman, is pretending to be on his deathbed after a long illness in order to dupe Voltore, Corbaccio and Corvino, who aspire to his fortune. They each arrive in turn, bearing extravagant gifts with the aim of being inscribed as Volpone's heir. Mosca, Volpone's assistant, encourages them, making each of them believe that he has been named in the will, and getting Corbaccio to disinherit his son in favour of Volpone.