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Michael Pennington - 4

Michael Pennington

1986

  • Theatre
    • Formed the English Shakespeare Company with Michael Bogdanov
    • Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II (ESC: tour of England, Germany, France and Canada, then season at the Old Vic)
    • Henry in Henry V (ESC: tour of England, Germany, France and Canada, then season at the Old Vic)
  • Readings
    • Strange Eventful History (Arts, Cambridge)
    • No, I'm Not Afraid (Poetry Society, Earls Court)
    • By Gloucester Docks I Sat and Wept
  • Television
    • Thomas Kyd in The Marlowe Inquest
    • Oedipus in Oedipus the King (BBC's trilogy The Theban Plays)
  • Film
    • Sherlock Holmes in a pilot film for CBS, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • Radio
    • Jude in Jude the Obscure
    • Bill Mottram in The Last Renaissance Man
    • Faber in Homo Faber
    • Anton Chekhov in Chekhov in Siberia

1987

  • Theatre
    • ESC: continuation of a two-year international tour of The Wars of the Roses, adding Richard II, Henry VI and Richard III, in which he played Richard II, Jack Cade, Buckingham and a number of other roles
    • Kafka - A Report to the Academy (Director) ( Young Vic)
  • Radio
    • Oedipus Stalin
    • Kaleidoscope - If It's Monday, It Must Be Croydon
    • Around Midnight

1988

  • Television
    • Readings from T E Lawrence in Lawrence and Arabia
    • English File: D H Lawrence 'Strike Pay'
  • Radio
    • Achilles in King Priam
    • The Most Valuable Acquisition
    • Kaleidoscope
    • Around Midnight

1989

  • Theatre
    • ESC: end of tour. Olivier nomination
    • Bill in Stephen Poliakoff's Playing With Trains (RSC: The Pit)
  • Television
    • John Mortimer's Summer's Lease
  • Radio
    • Start The Week
  • Reading
    • Iago in Othello at the Theatre Museum

1990

  • Theatre
    • Vershinin in Chekhov's Three Sisters (Gate , Dublin)
    • Anton Chekhov (Gate, Dublin: one-man show)
    • Leontes in The Winter's Tale (ESC: national and international tour and a season at the Aldwych)
    • Coriolanus in Coriolanus (ESC: national and international tour and a season at the Aldwych)
  • Radio
    • Third Ear
  • Writing
    • The English Shakespeare Company - The story of 'The Wars of the Roses' (with Michael Bogdanov)

1991

  • Theatre
    • The Winter's Tale and Coriolanus continued until June
    • Twelfth Night (Director) (ESC tour)
  • Television
    • Franz Jagerstatter in In My Defence
  • Radio
    • Conversation Piece
    • Wellington in The Other Side of the Hill
  • Reading
    • An Evening For Tony Quayle at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket

1992

  • Theatre
    • Macbeth in Macbeth (ESC tour)
    • Edward Damson in The Gift of the Gorgon (RSC: The Pit and Wyndham's)
  • Radio
    • Moriarty in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Thanks to Mary Hunwicks for the information on MP's career

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