Cast

Gerald O’HaraJulian Forsyth

Theatre includes: Robert in Blue/ Orange (New Vic), Ben in Follies (Northampton), Salieri in Amadeus, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (Derby Playhouse), Brothel Madam and Shogun’s Mother in Pacific Overtures (Leicester Haymarket), Tattooist in Tangier Tattoo (Glyndebourne), Prospero in The Tempest (Tampa, Florida), Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (Belgrade Coventry and tour), the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe (Carl Rosa Opera), Measure for Measure, The Blue Angel (RSC directed by Trevor Nunn), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (NT), O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie, Wedekind’s Lulu and Howard Barker’s Scenes from an Execution (all Almeida), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, St Joan, Les Misérables, Martin Guerre (all West End), Oedipus, Tobaccoland (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Miser (Chichester), Banquo in Macbeth with Corin Redgrave (BAC), A Doll’s House (Scarborough), The Diary of Anne Frank (Birmingham Rep), Communicating Doors, Travels with My Aunt (Salisbury), The Mikado (Orange Tree), Fagin in Oliver! (Sadler’s Wells and Leicester Haymarket), and The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (Music Theatre London). As associate director of Greenwich Studio Theatre in the mid-1990s, Julian won a Time Out Award and the London Fringe Best Director Award for his adaptations of plays from Denmark, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. He directs at some of London’s leading theatre schools.

Film and television include: The Curse of Steptoe, Dalziel and Pascoe, Diamond Geezer, Footballers’ Wives, Holby City, Doctors, EastEnders, Do the Right Thing, Poirot, This Is David Harper, Heroes, Not Quite at the Opera, Falstaff and Peter Warlock: Some Little Joy.

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