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English actor, writer and stage director |
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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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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. |
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. |
 The Zarzuela Companion |
 Christopher's Homepage |
 Bluff Your Way at the Races |
 Mail me! |