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Simon Callow

SIMON CALLOW

  (1949 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  represented by Mel Kenyon

Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE (born 15 June 1949) is an English actor, musician, writer and theatre director.

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below is a list of Simon Callow's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Charles Dickens And the Great theatre Of the World         Infernal Machine, The         Inside Wagner's Head         Jacques And His Master         Juvenalia         Les Enfants du Paradis         Nicolson Fights. . .         Shakespeare the Man From Stratford

Charles Dickens And the Great theatre Of the World

Synopsis:
When you find a writer that you love its like finding a best friend. Dickens never ceases to delight me. theres something in him which chimes with me: the energy; the scope; the generosity; the endless inventiveness of it. there is in Dickens the spirit of the medieval carnival that just deeply turns me on. That sense of the world as one big body and a celebration and embrace of all its grotesqueness, the ugliness, the smell, the sweat"

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Sympathetic Developments

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Infernal Machine, The

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Revival

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Inside Wagner's Head

Synopsis:
Wagner's life was fiercely passionate in every aspect: political exile, tempestuous love affairs, provocative writings and an astonishing operatic output that revolutionized the stage. This very special one-man show has been specially commissioned for Deloitte Ignite, this year curated by Stephen Fry.

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1st Produced:
Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio, London    06 Sep 2013

Organisations:
Royal Opera House and Theatre Royal Plymouth.

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Genre:
biographical play

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Jacques And His Master

Synopsis:
It may be a new year but there is nothing new about Milan Kundera's shaggy 18th-century seduction story of love, revenge, deception and friendship. as they travel through France, Jacques (a servant) is always just about to tell his master (a not so bright young man whose fetish for women with big bottoms has led him to be rather unlucky in affairs of the heart) the complicated story of his own love life. But other stories keep getting in the way. every time Jacques begins his tale, other stories snake into the narrative, running in parallel and then taking precedence. - Gardner, Guardian

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Original Playwright - Milan Kundera

1st Produced:
Van Gogh's Ear Lobe, Woolloongabba, QLD    11 Aug 1994

Organisations:
On Giant's Shoulders,

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25490
Theatre Record Vol XXV (2005) Page 0005 - [Theatre: White Bear]

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Juvenalia

Synopsis:
And now for something completely different - Simon Callow, theatrical treasure extraordinaire, reprises a success from early in his career. The writer, Juvenal born circa 55AD, wrote sixteen satires that attacked the decadence of Rome in its heyday. Here adapted by Richard Quick we are given a view into the moral decline that is as relevant now as it was back then. Directed by Simon Stokes. 'A comic delight . . . Callow comes on like a foul-tempered and thoroughly vicious Woody Allen' (Times). 'The observation and lyricism delight and resonate' (Time Out).

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1st Produced:
Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 2014

Organisations:
Assembly, Riverside Studios and Theatre Royal Plymouth

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Genre:
Comedy, Solo show, 1 hour 15 minutes

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Les Enfants du Paradis

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RSC

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Nicolson Fights. . .

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1st Produced:
Offstage Dstrs (Camden Studio), London    1986

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Shakespeare the Man From Stratford

Shakespeare the Man From Stratford
In a magical tour-de-force, Simon Callow, one of Britain's greatest actors, tracks down the real William Shakespeare, bringing to life both the man and the unforgettable characters - lovers, kings, soldiers and clowns - who have since conquered the world's stages. Callow joins forces with Jonathan Bate, pre-eminent Shakespeare biographer and editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare: the Complete Works, to fill the stage with Shakespeare's real and imagined worlds.

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aka Being Shakespeare

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Piece

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