Amanda Root - Theatre

Theatre

Her stage credits include:

• Essie in The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw), Leeds Playhouse, 1983
• Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC small-scale tour 1983; The Other Place 1984
• Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1984
• Moth in Love's Labours Lost, RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1984
• Lucy Ellison in Today by Robert Holman, RSC The Other Place, October 1984; The Pit Barbican Centre, May 1985
• Apricot in The Dragon's Tail by Douglas Watkinson, Apollo Theatre, October 1985
• Neuroza in Tell Me Honestly (Kenneth Branagh), Not the RSC Festival, Almeida Theatre 1985
• Adela in The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca, directed by Núria Espert), Lyric Hammersmith, September 1986; Globe Theatre, January 1987
• Harriet in The Man of Mode (George Etherege), RSC Swan Theatre, July 1988; The Pit, April 1989
• Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, RSC Barbican Theatre, May 1989
• Betty McNeil in Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), RSC The Pit, July 1989
• Cordelia in King Lear, RSC Almeida Theatre. September 1989
• Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, RSC Swan Theatre, April 1990; The Pit, June 1991
• Rosaline in Love's Labours Lost RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, September 1990; Barbican Theatre, March 1991
• Nina in The Seagull (Anton Chekhov), RSC Swan Theatre; November 1990; Barbican Theatre July 1991
• Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw),co-starring with Alec McCowen, Greenwich Theatre, February 1992
• The Manageress in 50 Revolutions (Murray Gold), Oxford Stage Company, Whitehall Theatre, September 1999
• Edith in Conversations After a Burial (Yasmina Reza), Almeida Theatre, September 2000
• Polina Bardin in Enemies (Maxim Gorky in a version by David Hare), Almeida Theatre, May 2006
• Sarah in The Norman Conquests, an interlinked trilogy by Alan Ayckbourn, Old Vic, October 2008
• Hester Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Rattigan), Chichester Festival Theatre, July 2011