ROMEO AND JULIET
Role: Romeo Montague
Dates: May 12, 2016 – August 13, 2016
Location: Garrick Theatre, London
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Lily James, Derek Jacobi, Meera Syal
The story of frustrated young (illegally young in modern terms) love and death and the vendetta between two families in a tight-knit Italian community. One of Shakespeare’s most popular and enduring dramas.
🚨 Richard was forced to withdraw from Romeo and Juliet after hurting his ankle.
FOUR PLAY
Role: Michael
Date: June 26, 2015
Location: The Old Vic Theatre
Director: Jack Sain
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Tom Rhys Harris, Joshua McCord
PART OF THE NEW VOICES FESTIVAL
After seven-and-a-half blissfully happy years, Rafe (Harries) and Pete (Irvine) have hit a rut. Having never slept with another man, their lack of sexual experience is slowly tearing them apart. When they proposition their mutual friend Michael (Madden) — knowing full well that Michael has his own long-term boyfriend Andrew (McCord) — complexities develop that none of the four could have predicted. A new comic play about the problems of monogamy and open relationships in a post gay-marriage era.
BE NEAR ME
Role: Mark McNulty
Dates: January 22, 2009 – March 14, 2009
+ March 25, 2009 – April 4, 2009
Location: Donmar Warehouse, London
+ Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow
Director: John Tiffany
Cast: Ian McDiarmid, Helen Mallon
Be Near Me, a book by Andrew O’Hagan, was adapted by Ian McDiarmid for the Donmar Warehouse and the National Theatre of Scotland.
David Anderton, an Oxford-educated Catholic priest, is assigned to a parish in a dispirited Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast. Lonely and adrift, he befriends two unstable teenagers from the local school and is drawn into their exotic world. As events spin out of control he is forced to face his greatest trial yet.
🚨 After its run at Donmar Warehouse in London, Be Near Me transferred to Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow, and then it toured throughout Scotland to Eden Court Theatre, Inverness; Traverse, Edinburgh and Perth Theatre .
NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
Role: Callum McGregor
Dates: Winter 2007
Location: Civic Hall, Stratford, London
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Ony Uhiara
A stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s best selling novel, the world of the Crosses and the noughts is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s a modern-day tale of star-crossed lovers, race and violence.
We follow the love story of Sephy and Callum, two young people kept apart by bigotry, terrorism and injustice. Sephy is a Prime Minister’s daughter from the powerful Crosses who falls for rebel Callum, son of a dangerous nought agitator. Their desire to be together threatens family loyalties and sparks a growing political crisis.
🚨 After its run at the Civic Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon in the winter of 2007, Noughts & Crosses toured the UK in 2008.
ROMEO AND JULIET
Role: Romeo Montague
Dates: Summer 2007
Location: Globe Theatre on Tour
Director: Edward Dick
Cast: Ellie Piercy, Eliot Shrimpton, Mark Springer, Julian Stolzenberg
The story of Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare’s most famous story of love at first sight.
🚨 Romeo and Juliet after a run at Globe Theatre in London, toured in open-air stages during the summer of 2007, becoming the Globe’s first tour.
TOM FOOL
Role: Ludwig Meier
Dates: November 2, 2006 – November 18, 2006
+ March 28, 2007 – April 21, 2007
Location: Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow
+ Bush Theatre, London
Director: Claire Lizzimore
Cast: Liam Brennan, Meg Fraser
A political drama from 1970s West Germany, Franz Xaver Kroetz’s work “Tom Fool”, translated by Estella Schmid and Anthony Vivis, examines a factory worker who reaches crisis point with his wife and child, his fantasy life shading into reality.
Tom Fool takes us back to the moment when women finally began to change the rules of the game. Otto Meier is a superb portrait of what still passed, in 1970s Germany, for an ordinary working man. Obsessed with the minute hierarchies of his factory workplace, used to taking his wife Martha completely for granted and inclined to see his stroppy 16-year-old son as a rival rather than a child in his care, Otto finds his world shattered when a terminal row with his son drives Martha to pack her bag and leave, leaving him alone to deal with the insecurities and alienations of his working life.
🚨 Tom Fool was so well received at the Citizens’ Theatre in Glasgow, that it transferred to London at the Bush Theatre.
RADIO PLAY
OF MICE AND MEN
Role: Curley
Date: March 7, 2010
Aired On: BBC Radio 4
Cast: David Tennant, Liam Brennan, Jude Akuwudike, Christopher Fairbank, Melody Grove, Neil McKinven
David Tennant and Liam Brennan star in Donna Franceschild’s dramatisation of John Steinbeck’s seminal novel about migrant workers in Thirties California, whose dream of one day owning a place of their own is tragically destroyed.
Of Mice And Men explores the friendship between George Milton and Lennie Small via the last three days in Lennie’s life.
On the run from a town where Lennie has been accused of rape, they pick up new jobs on a ranch further north – a place where the boss has recently married a flirtatious young woman.
She’s trouble, however, and George knows it, so he warns Lennie about the woman. They dream about a better life – a life they think is just around the corner. The boss’s wife then finds Lennie alone in the barn and their dream is ripped apart.
David Tennant stars as George Milton and Liam Brennan as Lennie Small. The cast also features Jude Akuwudike as Carlson/Crooks; Christopher Fairbank as Candy; Melody Grove as Curley’s wife; Neil McKinven as Slim; and Richard Madden as Curley.
