British Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference 2005
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Programme : Panels - Seminars - Workshops
Workshop - Playing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Shakespeare
and Stoppard
Sunday 4th September 2005, 9.30-11.00am,
Bedson Teaching Centre G37
with actors James Wallace and Nick Rowe
Actors James Wallace and Nicholas Rowe recently played Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in English Touring Theatre's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. James and Nicholas also played these parts (although the other way around!) in the Almeida's production of Hamlet with Ralph Fiennes. In this workshop James and Nicholas will discuss and illustrate the way in which the two plays intersect, and how having played Shakespeare's characters impacted upon their interpretation of the Stoppardian figures.
Nicholas Rowe
ROSENCRANTZ
Theatre: The Way of the World (Wilton’s Music Hall); The John Wayne Principle
(Pleasance); The Importance of Being Earnest (Nottingham Playhouse); Twelfth
Night (Sheffield Theatre); Translations (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Black Comedy and
The Real Inspector Hound (Donmar and Comedy Theatre); Hamlet (Hackney Empire
and Broadway); Saint Joan (Theatre Clywd and West End); Romeo and Juliet (ESC);
My Cousin Rachel (Derby Playhouse and Cheltenham Everyman); The Fairy Queen
(Lisbon Coliseum).
Television includes: Princes in the Tower, The Fugitives, Midsomer Murders,
La Femme Musketeer, Shackleton, Outside the Rules, HG Wells, Longitude, A Dance
to the Music of Time, Sharpe, Poldark, The Prodigious Hickey.
Film: Hidden Flaws, Enigma, Maiden’s Prayer, Nicholas Nickleby, Lock Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels, True Blue, Young Sherlock Holmes.
Short Film includes: Higher Agency, Giraffe, Phil’s Job, Girl on a Cycle.
Radio: Officer’s Ward, The River, The Headman.
James Wallace
GUILDENSTERN
Theatre includes: Vermilion Dream (Salisbury); The Way of the World (Wilton’s
Music Hall); Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Finborough); A&R (Latchmere);
Dead Funny, The Whisperers and The School for Scandal (all Rough Magic); Henry
IV Parts I and II (RSC); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Chichester); The Merchant
of Venice (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Northanger Abbey (Greenwich); Tartuffe (Almeida);
Hamlet (Hackney Empire and Broadway); Waiting for Godot (Italian tour).
Television includes: Margaret, The Bill, The Alan Clark Diaries, Pie in the
Sky, Between the Lines, The Prince, Out of Darkness.
Film includes: Piccadilly Jim, Lost in Chechnya, Die Another Day.
James has also directed and acted in over 40 plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries
for The Globe’s ‘Read Not Dead’ project.
