Spooner"My career, I admit it freely, has been chequered." |
Michael Fitzpatrick...trained as an irrigation engineer and found construction skills to be a useful preparation for university theatre. Since then, he has lived and worked in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, managing to appear in Kathmandu as Lord Foppington in The Relapse, Hound in The Real Inspector Hound and Stanley in The Birthday Party. In Italy, he has appeared regularly with The English Theatre of Rome since 1997 in both its one-act seasons and a number of full-length plays. These have included: Death in the Park, End of the Road, The Proposal, Homeward Bound, Brilliant Lies and the Pulitzer prize-winning The Gin Game. Other theatre appearances in Rome have included Goldberg in The Birthday Party, Fagin in Oliver!, Jerry in Betrayal, Coward in Cowardy Custard, and Frank in Memory of Water. Shakespearian roles have included Baptista, Sir John Falstaff and Leonato, and he has directed Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, The Real Inspector Hound and Art. |
Foster"Well, there's me too now. I'm another one of your new friends. I'm your newest new friend." |
Christoph Hülsen...grew up in Germany and went to the European Film College in Denmark, where he spent a year in practical film studies both in front of and behind the camera. He then studied acting for three years at the Webber Douglas Academy in London. Last year he had a chance to participate in the workshop for the play Primo by Anthony Sher at the National Theatre in London about the life of Primo Levi in Auschwitz . He is now very much looking forward to appear in a play by one of the most exciting British playwrights, Harold Pinter. |
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Briggs"I should tell you he'll deny this account. His story will be different."
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Jim McManus...first appeared on stage in Rome as Stanley in The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter and then went on to play Birdboot in The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard. Subsequently his roles seem to have been tapping into a meaner streak and include Bill Sykes in the musical Oliver! by Lionel Bart and Egeus in A Midsummer Nightís Dream by William Shakespeare. |
Hirst"I'm expecting you to go very much further." |
Grant Thompson...was born in New Zealand in 1950, but has lived most of what should
have been his adult life here and there in Europe and North Africa,
working at this and that. At Victoria University of Wellington, as well
English and Psychology he studied in the then new and very tiny Drama
Department. In London he worked as a West End stagehand on such masterworks
as Gone With TheWind - the musical and No Sex, Please,
We're British. He has taught English Language, and high school English
at St Steven's School in Rome, and is now the entire publishing department
of a distributor of satellite imagery. You can read some of his science
fiction here. |
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