Theatre

Theatre
Nearly all my acting work has been in the theatre, and all the projects with which I've been happiest in my career have been on stage.
cv detailed highlights

The work with which I'm proudest to be associated is that of the playwright Howard Barker, from my first exposure to it at the Almeida Theatre in a rehearsed reading directed by Ian McDiarmid, through the Barker Season organised by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Pit, to the national and international tours with the Wrestling School, the company formed specifically to perform Howard's work: highlights included the Odeon in Paris, the Metaphor in Lille and the Kanonenhalle in Copenhagen as well as the Royal Court and Riverside Studio theatres in London.
Title	Company/Location	Director
Crimes in Hot Countries (rehearsed reading) Crimes in Hot Countries The Castle Refuse to Dance (poetry reading) Hated Nightfall The Castle Wounds to the Face	Almeida Theatre RSC Barbican Pit RSC Barbican Pit RSC Barbican Pit Wrestling School Royal Court/National Tour/International Tour Wrestling School Riverside Studio/National Tour/International Tour Wrestling School Royal Court	Ian McDiarmid Bill Alexander Nick Hamm Bill Alexander/Nick Hamm Howard Barker Kenny Ireland Andy Cooper
I was also involved for a long time with the Brighton-based company Good Company, on a piece called 'I Bertolt Brecht', about the life and work of the German poet and dramatist, devised and directed by Sue Pomeroy. I was twice on national tour with it, then in London at the New End and Cockpit theatres, and even played Brecht's own theatre in Berlin, the Schiffbauerdammtheater, as guest of the Berliner Ensemble. The piece was subsequently adapted for OU summer schools at York University, part performance, part workshop, which I undertook for two years.
Title	Company/Location	Director
I Bertolt Brecht	Good Company National Tour/Berliner Ensemble/Open University	devised and directed by Sue Pomeroy
When Compass Theatre, under the direction of Tim Pigott-Smith, decided to mount a 25th Anniversary production of Peter Shaffer's 'Royal Hunt of the Sun', I was asked to join the company on its national tour. More interesting even than the work on the Shaffer, though, was playing Phil Murray in the production of Trevor Griffiths's 'Comedians' undertaken by a 'company within the company', directed by Tim's assistant Rob Clare, and rehearsed and played in prisons.
Title	Company/Location	Director
Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer Comedians by Trevor Griffiths	Compass Theatre National Tour Compass Theatre Prisons nationwide	Tim Pigott-Smith Rob Clare
I fulfilled a lifetime's ambition by joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, and regret only that my stay with them was all too short. I was brought in chiefly to join the cast of Edward Bond's 'The Great Peace'', the third in his trilogy of War Plays, undertook small parts in two more of the plays that season, was asked to stay on for the Barker Season at the Pit, and toured Australia with the company the following spring in 'Richard the Third' with Anthony Sher.
Title	Company/Location	Director
Red Noses By Peter Barnes Love's Labours Lost by William Shakespeare The Great Peace by Edward Bond Richard the Third by William Shakespeare Trilogy of Reunions by Botho Strauss Crimes in Hot Countries by Howard Barker The Castle by Howard Barker Refuse to Dance by Howard Barker (poetry reading) Triptych by Max Frisch (rehearsed reading)	RSC Barbican RSC Barbican RSC Barbican Pit RSC Australian Tour Almeida Theatre part of 'Not the RSC' Festival RSC Barbican Pit RSC Barbican Pit RSC Barbican Pit RSC Barbican Pit	Terry Hands Barry Kyle Nick Hamm Bill Alexander Ian McDiarmid Bill Alexander Nick Hamm Bill Alexander/Nick Hamm Terry Johnson
Theatre cv in brief
Title	Company/Location	Director
Down the Lawson Track I'm a Romany Rai A Most Sunshiny Day America Over The Water Brighton Rock The Castle Hated Nightfall Wounds to the Face I Bertolt Brecht Royal Hunt of the Sun Comedians The Great Peace Crimes in Hot Countries The Castle Red Noses Richard the Third Trilogy of Reunions Triptych The Unseen Hand Detective Story Accidental Death of an Anarchist Brighton Rock Time and Time Again The Genius Animal Glass Menagerie A Taste of Honey Piaf	Touring Touring Touring Touring Hanover Productions Wrestling School Wrestling School Wrestling School Good Company Compass Theatre Compass Theatre RSC RSC RSC RSC RSC RSC RSC Royal Exchange Royal Exchange Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse Tynewear Theatre Nuffield Southampton Redgrave Farnham Redgrave Farnham Redgrave Farnham " .......& No 1 Tour	Martyn Wyndham-Read Shirley Collins Shirley Collins Shirley Collins Chris Beaumont Kenny Ireland Howard Barker Andy Cooper Sue Pomeroy Tim Pigott-Smith Rob Clare Nick Hamm Bill Alexander Nick Hamm Terry Hands Bill Alexander Ian McDiarmid Terry Johnson Greg Hersov John Dillon Graham Berown David Horlock David Horlock John Blackmore Justin Greene Graham Watkins Graham Watkins Stephen Barry
and repertory at Dundee, Stoke, Basingstoke, Chester and Bristol.