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PLAYS PERFORMED
YEAR | PLAY | AUTHOR | DIRECTOR |
---|---|---|---|
1979 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller | Marshal Herrick |
1980 | Major Barbara | Bernard Shaw | Lomax |
1980 | Ballboys | David Edgar | One-Eye |
1980 | The Physicists | Friedrich Durrenmatt | Sir Isaac Newton |
1980 | Beyond The Fridge | Late Night Review | |
1980 | The Rogue and Peasant’s Slave | Nicky Campbell | |
1981 | As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Amiens+First Lord |
1981 | The Magus | Calderon De La Barca | The Devil |
1981 | Bent | Martin Sherman | Maximilian Berber |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1980:
The Physicists
by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Reviews
The play was written by Swiss-German Friedrich Durrenmatt after the wholesale destruction of World War 11 and following the explosions of the first and only atomic bombs. The question of scientific responsibility is raised (or avoided) by three physicists… all inmates of an expensive Swiss asylum run by an eccentric sinister psychiatrist. They choose to hide themselves away rather than reveal their discoveries to a world that has yet to demonstrate sufficient moral responsibility. Aberdeen University Theatre entertaining production reveals a play that is a perfectly structured piece of classical theatre and very funny too, with its serious undertones seldom far beneath the surface.
– Glasgow Herald, Peter Staffel
Iain Glen is brilliant as ‘Newton’. Behind his unruffled civility lurked, without the least trace of overacting, the cynical mendacity of a power politician. His acting threw considerable light on what the head of the asylum meant when she declared: “It is I who decide who my patients think they are.”
– The Scotsman, Mario Relich
Credits
- Alistair Hunter
- Inspector Richard Voss
- Nicky Campbell
- Fraulein Doktor Mathilac Von Zand
- Nina Sbresni
- Sister Marta Boll
- Iain Glen
- Newton
- James Reid Baxter
- Einstein
- Simon Donald
- Blocher
- Kim Fenton
- Johann Wilheim Mobius
- Jennifer Turner
- Frau Rose
- Alan Campbell
- Herr Rose
- Kate Symington
- Nurse Monika Stettler
- Paul Spero
- Uwe Sievers
- Leslie Kacznarek
- McArthur
- Robert Harley
- Murillo
- Alan Campbell
- Police Doctor
- Alan Campbell
- Directer
- Graham Johnston
- Designer
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1981:
Bent
by Martin Sherman
Reviews
Fringing” the Festival poses an inevitable challenge – how to winnow wheat from chaff. But when one discovers among the bumper harvest of drama anything as fine as Aberdeen University Theatre’s interpretation of Martin Sherman’s Bent, one feels the search has been worth the effort. The cast is in character – and in difficult roles indeed. This play, ranging from extremes of love to extremes of brutality, makes a plea for understanding tolerance of homosexual love. Act two shows the suffering and degradation which twp homosexuals are made to endure in a Nazi concentration camp. The two men, brilliantly played by Iain Glen and Simon Donald, hold fast to their humanity as long as they can still share a felling of love. Aberdeen shows rare power and maturity here.
– The Times Educational Supplement, Christopher Rathbone
The performances of Iain Glen as Mac and Simon Donald as Horst have a quiet authority, and intelligent direction by Nick Peters conveys the horrifying circumstances against which the gradually acknowledged love between the two men develops.
– The Glasgow Herald, Helen Murdoch
Credits
- Iain Glen
- Max
- Nicky Campbell
- Rudy
- Allan Graham
- Wolf
- Nick Peters
- Lieutenant
- Allan Robb
- 2nd Lieutenant
- Kim Fenton
- Greta
- Allan Robb
- Victor
- Alistair Hunter
- Freddie
- Simon Donald
- Horst
- Michael Duke
- Guard on train
- Guy Peploe
- Officer
- Allan Robb
- Kapo
- Tony Campbell
- Corporal
- Guy Peploe
- Captain
- Nick Peters
- Director
- Caroline Newton
- Production Assistant
- Nicky Campbell / Kim Fenton
- Music
The Megus
Reviews
Nicholas Campbell was impressive as Cyprian, a bespectacled and Faust-like seeker after truth, and Iain Glen gave a powerful performance as the sneering Lucifer who seeks to destroy him.
– The Scotland, John Clifford
This production has the virtues as well as the faults of student drama. Among the former is the willingness to disinter a classic version of the Faust scene – there being a suavely effective Devil played by Iain Glen. There is also an enthusiasm which proves sporadically infectious when applied to the contemporary setting of Europe. The defects are the usual ones of faulty diction and stagecraft, and a lack of resources to help create the necessary illusion.
– The Glasgow herald, Keith Gibbs
Photos
Iain Glen is brilliant as ‘Newton’. Behind his unruffled civility lurked, without the least trace of overacting, the cynical mendacity of a power politician.