In a career spanning six decades Audrey was equally adept at comedy and serious drama, becoming a regular and popular character actor in rep at Bath’s Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Cheltenham Everyman and Bristol Old Vic. In the 1980s, she worked at the National Theatre and appeared, in 1982 with Peter O’Toole in Man and Superman before making her final stage appearance at the Bristol Old Vic in 1985.
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The death has been announced of Michael Napier Brown the actor, director, and playwright who was the chief executive and artistic director of the Royal Theatre in Northampton for over 20 years after having started his directorial career in Cheltenham. . . he decided to become a director and wrote to Malcolm Farquhar who was artistic director at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham . . .
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The Royal Shakespeare Company announces today that Gregory Doran’s production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play DEATH OF A SALESMAN will transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End, following its run in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The entire Stratford cast, led by Antony Sher and Harriet Walter has received recent critical acclaim and will transfer for a ten week run from 9 May until 18 July 2015.
Read MoreDirector Ali Robertson enthusiastically launched the new branding for the Bristol-based theatre group last night in the Tobacco Factory Theatre bar. He also announced the new summer season and the Christmas 2015 show. The new programme is comprehensive with a wide and varied range of performances. Highlights include a new production of Living Quarters, by revered Irish playwright Brian Friel. Directed by Andrew Hilton, this is only the second time that the play will have been performed in this country professionally . . .
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The death has been announced of Ian Mullins who was Director of Productions at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham from 1961 until 1968. He was largely responsible for the success and the survival of the theatre after the Everyman rose from the ashes of the old Opera House. Had it not been for his skilful and imaginative running of the repertory company the theatre would very probably not have survived. All those who are theatre goers in Cheltenham and those that work and have worked at the Everyman are enormously indebted to him.
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