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ETT is proud to enjoy the support of six extraordinary actors as its patrons.
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Sir Ian McKellen (Founder patron)
Theatre includes: A Man for All Seasons, When We Are Married, You Never Can Tell, Black Coffee, Celebration, End of Conflict, Mr. Pickwick, Toad of Toad Hall, The Seagull, The Bride Comes Back, Much Ado About Nothing, Happy Returns, Semi-Detached (Belgrade Theatre Coventry); Becket, The Gazebo, Caste, The Amorous Prawn, The Keep, David Copperfield, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, Arsenic and Old Lace, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Arts Theatre Company, Ipswich); Coriolanus, The Mayor of Zalamea, (Nottingham Playhouse); ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, The Way of the World, King Lear (The Actor’s Company); Dr Faustus, King John, Too Good to be True (Royal Shakespeare Company London); Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, The Alchemist (Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford-upon-Avon); Bent, Richard III, Uncle Vanya, An Enemy of the People, Present Laughter (Royal National Theatre); Dance of Death (Lyric Shaftesbury Ave, Broadhurst Theatre in New York and Theatre Royal in Sydney); Aladdin (Old Vic - The Donmar)
Television includes: Extras; Coronation Street; Churchill; Everest - View from the Top; David Copperfield; Mister Shaw’s Missing Millions; Countdown to War; The Witches; Dying Day; Keats.
Film includes: The Promise; Alfred the Great; Priest of Love; Scandal; Gods and Monsters; Apt Pupil; Bent; Richard the Third; Rasputin; the X-Men trilogy; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The DaVinci Code.
Directing includes: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Three Months Gone (Liverpool Playhouse); The Real Inspector Hound (Phoenix); Erpingham Camp (Watford); A Private Matter (Vaudeville); The Clandestine Marriage (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Radio includes: The Prelude; Terre Haute; Be Prepared; Little Dorrit; Related Variations; Wild Honey; Speaking for Everyman; Dear and Honoured Lady; Words, Words Words.
English, Touring and Theatre are three wonderful words. Put together they are more wonderful still.Sir Ian McKellen
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Joanna Lumley OBE
Theatre includes: Private Lives (touring); Noel and Gertie (Kings Head); Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard (Dundee Rep); Blithe Spirit (Vaudeville); An Ideal Husband (Chichester Festival); Vanilla ( Lyric West End); Revengers’ Comedies (The Strand); Who Will I Be Tomorrow (Greenwich); The Letter (Lyric Hammersmith).
Television includes: Steptoe and Son; The Persuaders; General Hospital; Coronation Street; The New Avengers; Sapphire and Steel; Girl Friday; Absolutely Fabulous; Class Act; Coming Home; Nancherrow; In The Kingdom Of The Thunder Dragon; A Rather English Marriage; Dr Willoughby; Up In Town; Born To Be Wild; MissMarple - The Body In The Library; Sensitive Skin.
Film includes: Some Girls Do; On her Majesty’s Secret Service; The Trail of the Pink Panther; The Curse of the Pink Panther; The Satanic Rights of Dracula; Shirley Valentine; Jamesand the Giant Peach; Innocent Lies; Funny Bones; Prince Valiant; Sweeney Todd; Parting Shots; Whispers; Mad Cows; Maybe Baby; The Cat’s Meow; Ella Enchanted; Ugly Americans; Magic Roundabout.
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Diana Quick
For ETT: Mother Courage and Her Children; Ghosts (Barclays/TMA Award for Best Actress and Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actress).
Theatre includes: You Never Can Tell (Garrick); Anna and the Tropics (Hampstead); After Mrs Rochester (Shared Experience and West End); Mother Teresa is Dead, The Old Neighbourhood, The Sea and Lear (Royal Court); Be My Baby (Soho); Hamlet, The Changeling, The Woman Pirates (RSC); A Map of the World, Troilus and Cressida, Tamburlaine, Plunder and Phaedra Britannica (NT); Kindertransport (Vaudeville); Threepenny Opera (Vaudeville); Billy (Drury Lane); Rough Justice (Apollo); The Woman Destroyed (Lyric, Hammersmith and New York); Progress and Fly Away Home (Lyric, Hammersmith); If We are Women and Mindkill (Greenwich); The Screens and Subject to Fits (Bristol Old Vic); The Women (Old Vic); Present Laughter (Royal Exchange); and six months with Red Ladder.
Television includes: Midsomer Murders; Poirot; The Aristocrats; The Heat of the Sun; Drug Taking and the Arts; Dandelion Dead; Clarissa; September Song; The Orchid House; The Alleyn Mysteries; Inspector Morse; Alas Smith and Jones; The Justice Game; Chekhov in Yalta; Carianni and the Courtesans; Minder; Phantom of the Opera; The Woman in White; Brideshead Revisited; The Three Hostages; Mr Garrick and Mrs Woffington; Christ Recrucified; The Playground; Napoleon in Love; It’s My Pleasure; Dorothy Parker (which she wrote and directed).
Film includes: The Revenger’s Tragedy; The Discovery of Heaven, L’Affaire du Collier; A.K.A., Saving Grace, Vigo: Burning Up, The Leading Man, Nostradamus, Wilt, Vroom, The Duellists, The Big Sleep, The Odd Job, Ordeal by Innocence, 1919, Max Mon Amour; Nicholas and Alexandra, A Private Enterprise.
Radio includes: Pepita’s Daughter, Vita’s Mother; Mrs Warren’s Profession; Lost Journals of Marina Tsetayeva.
Publications include: a translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Woman Destroyed in Plays by Women. Diana recently made her directorial debut, directing Unstoned at Soho Theatre for the NYT.
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Alan Rickman
Theatre includes: Private Lives (London and New York); Antony and Cleopatra (NT); Hamlet (Riverside Studios and National Tour); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RSC, London and New York); The Seagull, Lucky Chance, The Grass Widow (Royal Court); Commitments (Bush Theatre).
Television includes: Pity in History; Revolutionary Witness; Benefactors; Barchester Chronicles; Romeo and Juliet.
Recent films include: Nobel Son; Perfume; Snow Cake.
Directing includes: The Winter Guest (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Almeida Theatre; also directed the film version which premiered at the Venice Film Festival); My Name is Rachel Corrie (Royal Court, Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, New York)
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Simon Russell Beale CBE
Theatre includes: Volpone, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Othello, Battle Royal, Candide, Hamlet, Money, Summerfolk, Humble Boy, Jumpers, the Life of Galileo, The Alchemist (National Theatre); Restoration, The Man of Mode, Troilus and Cressida, Edward II, The Seagull, Richard III, Ghosts, King Lear, The Tempest (Royal Shakespeare Company); Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse); Jumpers (Piccadilly Theatre, Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, New York); Macbeth (Almeida Theatre); Julius Caesar (Barbican/International Tour); The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse); Monty Python's Spamalot (Schubert Theatre, New York).
Television includes: The Mushroom Pickers; Persuasion; A Dance to the Music of Time; Great Historians: Gibbon; The Young Visiters; Dunkirk; American Experience.
Film includes: Hamlet; The Temptation of Franz Schubert; An Ideal Husband, Alice in Wonderland, The Gathering.
Radio includes: Piaf & Cocteau; Special Berlioz Evening; Harriet; A Map of British Poetry; Japanese Gothic Tales; De Profundis; A Certain Age; Le Grand Meaulnes; Trafalgar; Sunday Feature: Bertolt Brecht & His Composers; Twenty Minutes: Mozart.
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Timothy West CBE
For ETT: The Old Country, King Lear, The Master Builder, Henry IV Parts I and II.
Theatre includes: King Lear, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Luther (National Theatre); Gentle Jack, The Italian Girl, Abelard and Heloise, Exiles, Hedda Gabler, The Homecoming, Beecham, Master Class, When We Are Married, The Sneeze, It’s Ralph, Twelve Angry Men and The Birthday Party (all in the West End); The Tempest, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice (Old Vic); HMS Pinafore (Carl Rosa Opera); The Life of Galileo (Birmingham Rep).
Television includes: Bleak House; Bedtime; Murder in Mind; New Tricks; Midsomer Murders; Waking the Dead; The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Recent includes: Beyond Borders; The Fourth Angel; Iris; Villa des Roses; Joan of Arc.
Publications include: an autobiography A Moment Towards the End of the Play and a handbook So You Want to be an Actor? (co-written with his wife Prunella Scales). Timothy West was made a CBE in 1984.
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5 Mar - 3 Apr 2010
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West Yorkshire Playhouse
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23 Apr - 15 May 2010
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Liverpool Playhouse
Liverpool -
19 May - 12 Jun 2010
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Hampstead Theatre
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15 Jun - 19 Jun 2010
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Cambridge Arts Theatre
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22 Jun - 26 Jun 2010
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Malvern Theatres
Malvern -
29 Jun - 3 Jul 2010
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Theatre Royal Brighton
Brighton -
5 Mar - 3 Apr 2010
Rum and Coca Cola
West Yorkshire Playhouse
Leeds -
23 Apr - 15 May 2010
Canary
Liverpool Playhouse
Liverpool -
19 May - 12 Jun 2010
Canary
Hampstead Theatre
London -
15 Jun - 19 Jun 2010
Canary
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Cambridge -
22 Jun - 26 Jun 2010
Canary
Malvern Theatres
Malvern -
29 Jun - 3 Jul 2010
Canary
Theatre Royal Brighton
Brighton
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