Graham, "Talking
Heads" "...wonderful subtlety, amusing and touching,
Webber is a great actor" (Die Zeit, Berlin) |
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English actor, writer and stage director
... has worked with playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn at the
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough,
and Chichester Festival Theatre. Won golden opinions as trainspotting chemist
Francis Kebble in Ayckbourn's A Word From Our Sponsor.
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Also noted for his work in the plays of Alan
Bennett, particularly as Graham in A Chip in the Sugar (Talking
Heads) which he has given at the legendary Mull
Little Theatre in the Hebrides (premiere British repertory
production). He recently played Graham again in the German premiere of
Talking Heads in Berlin, which he also directed, and Guy Burgess in
Single Spies at the Northcott
Theatre in Exeter. |
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Guy Burgess, "An
Englishman Abroad" "...outrageously funny, gets beneath the camp to
the wistful sense of loss beneath" (The Stage) |
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Jaques, "As You Like It" "...citric presence, clarity and
wit - perhaps the best Jaques I have seen" (Daily Telegraph) |
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Other parts have included Truscott in Joe Orton's Loot
(Dundee), Jaques As You Like It (Exeter) and Rupert in Patrick
Hamilton's classic thriller Rope (Leeds). Created Owl in the first ever
stage play of Winnie the Pooh (London West End). Television includes
Bugs 2, Poirot and the Ray Galton comedy for BBC Get Well
Soon in which he appears as the antiquarian bookdealer Arthur Bloomsbury.
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Plays include Tatyana, written for actress/alternative
comedian Josie Lawrence and Nottingham Playhouse); Love and Politics,
from Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, Riverside Studios London; Dr Sullivan and Mr Gilbert, revived
1998 at Glasgow Citizens Theatre and on
tour; zarzuela adaptations for Santa Fe
Opera; and The Girl with the Roses for the Bloomsbury Theatre
London. He is also the author of Green Tea - shortlisted for a
Guinness Prize; the best-selling Bluff Your Way At
the Races (Ravette); and The Zarzuela
Companion (Scarecrow Press) with a Foreword by Plácido
Domingo.
He was a major contributor to the 2002 revision of The
Oxford Companion to Music, writing on Iberian, South and Central American
music. His romanza compilations for UME, Zarzuela!, have been
best sellers in Europe and the USA. |
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Directing has included Death
of a Composer Nottingham Playhouse,
Talking Heads Berlin, 2084 Barcelona, and a new staging of The
Mikado for the D'Oyly Carte Opera
Company in Britain and Los Angeles; also work on the Tokyo revival
of Carmen with José Carreras and Maria Ewing. |
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