playing shakespeare's greatest Prince

as my more attentive reader will remember (my other reader should refresh her memory here http://joeandcozza.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-am-someone-from-africa.html), i was in a play when i was in sri lanka.

this fine piece of drama was called "The Merchant Of Venice Kandy" (ho ho ho), and i played the prince of morocco, the definitive performance of which has been generally recognised as that of stephen greif http://imdb.com/name/nm0340039/ from olivier's immortal made-for-TV shylock. you may remember greif from his other roles in Dempsey and Makepeace, or Dragon Quest VIII: Sora No Daichi To Norowareshi Himegimi.

well, i would like to think that had he seen me holding an entire audience of well over twenty people spellbound for literally minutes at a time, he would be prepared to hand over his crown.

here are some publicity photographs, as taken by Tess, which may be signed for a small fee. the photos may also be signed i suppose, although i imagine that would be cheaper. i'll check.



the entire cast; it should be obvious to anyone with a passing knowledge of the Bard which actor is playing which character.



the intensity of emotion can be draining to sustain, but we suffer for our art.



the characterisation demands complete mastery of the full range of human emotions.

Update!

someone has just phoned to suggest that there may be a yet greater shakespearean Prince. well, this may be true in a strictly academic sense, but nobody does Pericles, Prince of Tyre these days.