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What I do... (Actor, director, designer, teacher etc?)
I'm a civil servant whose hanging on in there until the mortgage application gets accepted. I am also an improvising actress and visual artist.
My Quick CV
Attended Anna Scher from the age of seven. Did various professional acting jobs whilst a teengager culminating in a main part in the children's TV series Press Gang.Felt trapped by the security of regular well paid work so went and studied theatre, broadcasting and art for many years. Found my improvising feet with Fluxx and am currently in an action theatre practise group, and a devised work called "Ruff Island".
The first thing that inspired me in theatre...
It was a play about Racism devised by the members of the Anna Scher Theatre for the Festival of plays.
My favourite theatre something is...
punch drunks "Faust"
The thing that annoys me about our industry...
The schizophrenic relationship a lot of actors maintain with the audience.

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A Fine Balance

“A Fine Balance” ( a Tamasha production, back at the Hampstead Theatre for a limited run) is a tapestry of interwoven stories, set
against the backdrop of 1975 India.
The play follows the trials and tribulations of a handful of colourful
characters, who are struggling with the hardships that the state of emergency
is imposing upon them.





The play flits between different classes and castes, and between interior a

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Posted on April 14, 2007 at 8:18pm —

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Landscape with weapon

I thought Landscape with Weapon written by Joe Penhall
was funny, moving, intelligent and very topical. Each element of the
production from the characterisation through to the staging and
dialogue kept reinforcing the complexity of the subject. The subject
being weapons and the way in which they can ultimately render people
even more powerless. So although the protagonist has the vision to
create a sophisticated new weapon his fear of the damage it can inflict
in the wrong h… Continue

Posted on April 11, 2007 at 12:31pm —

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The David Glass ensembles revival of Gormenghast at the BAC was very cleverly executed, expertly swi…

The David Glass ensembles revival of Gormenghast at the BAC was very cleverly executed, expertly switching between visual gags, richly symbolic imagery and synchronised sound sequences.


My favourite performances were by Philip Pellew, who is remarkably endearing and comic as flay the leggy servant and Elise De Grey as Fuschia the t

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Posted on April 3, 2007 at 4:50pm —

 
 

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