A Diary of my time performing “Cromwell : The Play”, which was written and directed by Steve Newman.“The Royal Shakespeare Company building, down on the banks of the Avon, is known throughout the world as perhaps the most famous theatre of them all. Virtually all the great actors have performed there, and those that have not, wish to.

But what if there is another world out there? Another set of ‘travelling players’, with their own production? Just as creative, just as magical, and with everything done by the company themselves – writing, directing, even the recipes for the food. Ladies and gentlemen, come back in time to 1651, to stay with the great “Oliver Cromwell” and his parliamentarian friends…

”This book is a true account of my time as an actor in the “Bird Of Prey” Theatre Company, and our efforts to take a play forward, from a simple read-through around a table to a hauntingly atmospheric experience of a time when Englishman fought Englishman, and which drew almost universally good reviews and feedback from those who saw it.

Laugh at the gaffes and the mishaps. How many RSC productions boast a wing situated in the lounge of a pub? And feel the personality clashes, too – the Civil War didn’t stop when the acting did. But through all the laughs and the tensions, watch a production move onward and upward, to involve putting the play on at different venues, a filmed performance at Shrieves House, and even specially-written invitations on scrolls. Cromwell was recreated, and for those who saw it, or were involved, it would be an experience to never forget…”

Not yet in print.