Rupert Wickham

Rupert was “a wonderfully fresh and involving Hamlet” (The Independent) at Greenwich Theatre. He played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet for Dame Judi Dench at Regent’s Park, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest at Manchester Royal Exchange, St. John Quartermaine in Quartermaine’s Terms at Salisbury Playhouse and The Royal Theatre Northampton, and Captain Gower in Henry V for Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner at The Royal National Theatre.

Other theatre credits include: The Colonel in Journey’s End (Comedy Theatre), Gerardo Escobar in Death and the Maiden (King’s Head), John Watherstone in The Winslow Boy at Chichester Festival Theatre and The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, title roles in Macbeth and Richard III, Edmund in King Lear at Ludlow Festival , Siegfried Sassoon in Not About Heroes (NTNT), and a “complex and brilliantly and brutally convincing” (Time Out) Iago in Othello at The Cochrane Theatre. Film and television credits include: Band of Brothers, The Bourne Identity, The Brylcreem Boys, A Dance to the Music of Time, The Cinder Path, Bertie and Elisabeth, The Plot to Kill Hitler, The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, King Henry II in The Real Thomas Becket, The Spacerace, Blackbeard and Waking The Dead. Radio includes: Betsie and the Emperor, Short Story and Poetry Please. Rupert’s one-man-show Defying Hitler was described by The Sunday Times as “compelling theatre, immaculately performed”. He adapted the play from the memoir of Sebastian Haffner, and has toured it extensively throughout the UK, including two visits to The Royal National Theatre. In 2006 year he performed Defying Hitler as part of the prestigious ‘Brits Off Broadway’ Festival at 59E59 Theaters in New York.

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Introduction:
Tony Benn

Singers
Rosemary Ashe
Sally Burgess
Charlie Dore
Johnnie Fiori
Fiona MacDonald
The Manchester
Lesbian & Gay Chorus
Nasrin Parvaz
Annette Reis-Dunne
Andrea Roberts
Peter Straker

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Stella Duffy
Leslie Forbes
David Harsent
Ben Mellor
Shelley Silas
Lemn Sissay

Actors
Janie Dee
Sam Ellis
John Guerrasio
Loveday Smith
Will Strange
Two’s Company
Rupert Wickham
Dan Willis
Chris and Olly

Musicians
Julian Littman (MD)
Neal Thornton

Directors
London: Caroline Clegg
Nepal: Hazel Roy

Special Guests
Mende Nazer
Julie Nicholson


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