Major Theatre Credits
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Playwright | Theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Bible One, Part I: The Genesis Mediaeval Mystery Plays: The Creation to Jacob |
Angels / Noah's son | Frank Dunlop | Frank Dunlop (adapter) |
Young Vic Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival Young Vic Theatre The Roundhouse |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
Gad | Frank Dunlop | Andrew Lloyd Webber Tim Rice |
Young Vic Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival Young Vic Theatre The Roundhouse |
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| The Comedy of Errors | Police Officer / Singer | Frank Dunlop | Shakespeare | Young Vic Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival Young Vic Theatre |
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| 1973 | Look Back in Anger | Jimmy Porter | Bernard Goss | John Osborne | Young Vic Theatre |
| Hobson's Choice | Freddy Beenstock | Bernard Goss | Harold Brighouse | Young Vic Theatre | |
| 1973–74 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
Hamlet Guildenstern |
Bernard Goss | Tom Stoppard | Young Vic Theatre |
| 1974 | Much Ado About Nothing | Claudio | Frank Dunlop | Shakespeare | Young Vic Theatre |
| 1974 | The Taming of the Shrew | Lucentio | Frank Dunlop | Shakespeare | Young Vic Theatre Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York |
| Scapino | Ottavio | Frank Dunlop | Molière Frank Dunlop |
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| French Without Tears | Brian Curtis | Frank Dunlop | Terence Rattigan | ||
| 1974 | The School for Scandal | Moses | Robert Lang | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Cambridge Theatre Company (touring) |
| 1974 | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Member of the Acting Company |
Richard Cottrell | Pirandello | Cambridge Theatre Company (touring) |
| 1974–75 | Hamlet | Hamlet | Richard Cottrell | Shakespeare | Cambridge Theatre Company (touring) |
| 1975–76 | Otherwise Engaged | Dave | Harold Pinter | Simon Gray | Oxford Playhouse Richmond Theatre Queen's Theatre |
| 1977 | Julius Caesar | Octavius | John Schlesinger | Shakespeare | National Theatre (Olivier Theatre) |
| Volpone | Peregrine | Peter Hall | Ben Jonson | ||
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Captain Phoebus | Michael Bogdanov | Ken Hill | National Theatre (Cottlesloe Theatre) | |
| 1978–1979 | The Tempest | Ariel | Clifford Williams | Shakespeare | Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon Aldwych Theatre, London |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Tranio | Michael Bogdanov | |||
| Love's Labour's Lost | Longaville | John Barton | |||
| 1978–1980 | Piaf | Man at rehearsal / Pierre |
Howard Davies | Pam Gems | The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle Warehouse Theatre, London Aldwych Theatre, London Wyndham's Theatre, London |
| 1979 | Once in a Lifetime | Lawrence Vail | Trevor Nunn | Moss Hart George Kaufman |
Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre |
| The Innocent | Joe Maguire | Howard Davies | Tom McGrath | Warehouse Theatre | |
| 1982 | Guys and Dolls | Sky Masterson | Richard Eyre | Frank Loesser Abe Burrows Damon Runyon |
National Theatre (Olivier Theatre) |
| 1984–85 | Fool for Love | Eddie | Peter Gill | Sam Shepard | National Theatre (Cottlesloe Theatre) Lyric Theatre |
| 1985–86 | After Aida | Boito | Howard Davies | Julian Mitchell | Taliesin Theatre, Swansea Old Vic Theatre |
| 1986 | Cricket | Donald | Trevor Nunn | Andrew Lloyd Webber Tim Rice |
Windsor Castle |
| 1988 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick | Howard Davies | Tennessee Williams | National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre) |
| 1989 | Bent | Greta / George | Sean Mathias | Martin Sherman | Adelphi Theatre (benefit for Stonewall) |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | Richard Eyre | Shakespeare | National Theatre (Olivier Theatre) |
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