ACTING
Here's where you can learn more of my acting. This is when I come out form under the puppet and show my face. I'll be adding little things here and there so look back in. You never know what you might find.
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ROPE
In 2003 I performed Brandon, a principle character in the pre-Hitchcock London 1929 play version of Rope. Brandon was a juicy role as he was an English murderer who thought he could execute the "perfect crime".
After getting the part, I decided to do a little research on the origins of this play. Well I about fell off my chair when I read that the first person to play Brandon in 1929 was a young actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company named Sebastian Shaw, who later went on to play the unmasked Vader (Anakin) in Return of the Jedi! We were in the same movie together!!!
Sebastian Shaw
I like to think that at this same time, Alfred Hitchcock would regularly visit the London theaters and saw Sebastian in Rope and kept this in the back of his mind, until he was able to adapt it for film in 1948. I believe at this same time he was shooting his first sound movie, Blackmail at Elstree studios, the same studio we shot Jedi at. Cool huh?
Below are some images of my interpretation of Brandon in Rope.
The Masquers Playhouse are currently celebrating their 50th year!