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Acting
William performed with musical
theatre group In the Meantime at La Bodega at
the Henley Fringe Festival in June, alongside
Claire Askam, Rachel May, Annie Walker and Martin
Howard, with musical director Tom Fowkes.
Click
here to see a clip from the show on YouTube |
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| THE BORROWERS
by Mary Norton, adapted for the stage by Charles
Way, directed by John Adams. Haymarket Theatre,
Basingstoke, December 6th 2006 to January 6th 2007.
Having played Spiller in THE BORROWERS in 2002,
William returned to the show in 2006 in the role
of the human boy who discovers the Clock family
under the floorboards of a house in Victorian
England, sparking a series of events that lead
to the small family having to flee their home
and brave the outside world in search for their
lost relatives.
‘Pick of the week #5’ (The Guardian
Guide.)
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| TAKING THE BLOOD OF BUTTERFLIES
by Sean Burn, directed by Vanessa Mobiglia. Oval
House, October 24th to November 11th 2006.
William plays troubled German soldier Zek in
this new play about the insanity of war. In a
war-torn country a mother, her daughter and a
peacekeeping force struggle to survive. Under
siege and numbed by war, the soldiers are slowly
slipping into madness. Soon their war cries of
valour and duty are replaced by death and abuse.
Sean Burn’s poetic play explores the effect
that war has on the mind and soul that is daily
exposed to horror and conflict.
Visit
the Weaver Hughes Ensemble website here.
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| THE ANATOMIST
directed by Ivan Cutting
William played hapless traveller Arial in Tony
Ramsey’s new play for Eastern Angles. The
play toured from June 29th to August 6th, with
a run in London’s Gatehouse theatre in Highgate
from July 10th-22nd.
Two travellers slope towards sixteenth century
Padua where Andreas Vesalius is at work on the
first accurate map of the interior universe of
the body. Life would be easier, of course, if
his illustrator Stephan, the prodigiously talented
artist trained by Titian, didn’t have such
a sensitive stomach.
But in a world where Laurel and Hardy meet Burke
and Hare, this is the least of his problems. Andreas
is also busy taunting the Watch and pushing the
authorities to the limit of their tolerance with
the first public dissection of a human cadaver.
Or at least he would be if he could find a body
to put on the slab…
The Anatomist mixes high ideals and low comedy
as the past and future collide in a funny and
tragic tale which ultimately asks what it means
to be human.
Click
here for more information
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Acting
MAXWELL: INSIDE THE
EMPIRE a spoof documentary directed by
David Howell
For the very first time, notorious
billionaire tycoon Sir Peter Maxwell has allowed
the cameras into his strange and often shocking
world. Maxwell: Inside The Empire is the result.
The documentary film crew were afforded an unprecedented
amount of access to the Maxwell estate, the Maxwell
family and to Sir Peter himself. Following Sir
Peter over the period of twelve months, the cameras
have managed to document some of the most shocking
scenes of aristocratic excess ever captured on
film. William plays Edward Maxwell, Sir Peter’s
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JOURNEY’S END
directed by David Grindley
On tour around the UK, William
played a German soldier captured by the British
in R C Sherriff’s classic play set in the
trenches of World War One. William also played
the role of Raleigh at the Ambassador’s
Theatre, Woking, and Private Albert Brown at the
Duke of York’s Theatre in London.
David Grindley’s production
went on to open on Broadway and won the 2007 Tony
Award for Best Revival.
Click
here to see the official JOURNEY’S END
website. |
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THE RESISTIBLE RISE
OF ARTURO UI directed by Phillip Breen
Played Clark of the Cauliflower
Trust and Dullfeet of the Journal for Vegetable
and Positive Thinking in Bertolt Brecht’s
allegorical comedy about the rise of Hitler, set
amidst 1930s Chicago’s underworld of grocers
and gangsters.
William Gregory puts his angelic
looks to demonic use in a range of deceptively
vicious roles.’ (Sunday Herald) |
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THE BORROWERS
directed by Chris Wallis
Played Spiller, a wild countryside
Borrower who rescues the Clock family after their
escape from their home under the floorboards of
a manor house in Victorian England. THE BORROWERS
toured the UK before playing at the West Yorkshire
Playhouse during the festive season.
‘A Super Show.’
(The Guardian)
Click
here to see the Borrowers website. |
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THE ULTIMATE TRUTH
directed by Nick Clark.
A feature by Wysiwyg Films,
THE ULTIMATE TRUTH tells the comic story of eco-terrorism
and political activism in deepest Hampshire A
feckless young Australian living in rural Hampshire
starts his own political party to impress his
girlfriend. Tim (played by William) is his hero’s
sidekick, with ferocious intelligence, unique
philosophical logic and bizarre linguistic ability.
He is the eccentricity and insane spark within
Jeda’s gang.
‘…excellent lead
players.’ (Jeff Thomson, Radio 4) |
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GERMAN BOY
by Wolfgang E Samuel
As the Third Reich crumbled
in 1945, scores of Germans fled the advancing
Russian troops. Among them was a little boy named
Wolfgang Samuel who left with his mother and sister,
ending up in war-torn Strasburg before being forced
into a disease-ridden refugee camp. German Boy
is the story of their fight for survival, a broken
family who suffered arbitrary arrest, rape, hunger
and constant fear. But Wolfgang maintained his
youth in little ways - making friends with other
little refugees, playing games with shrapnel,
delighting in the planes flown by the Americans
and the sweets the GIs brought. Bringing fresh
insight to the dark history of Nazi Germany, German
Boy records the valuable recollection of an innocent's
incredible journey
‘German Boy always holds
your interest.’ (The Observer)
Click
here to buy a copy of the audiobook from Isis
Publishing. |
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SNOWLEG by
Nicholas Shakespeare
A young Englishman visits Cold
War Leipzig with a group of students and, during
his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls
for an East German girl who is only just beginning
to wake up to the way her society is governed.
Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened
to help.
He spends the next 19 years
pretending to himself that he is not in love until
one day, with Germany now reunited, he decides
to go back and look for her. But who was she,
how will his actions have affected her, and how
will he find her? All he knows of her identity
is the nickname he gave her - Snowleg.
This is a powerful love story
that explores the fraught relationship between
England and Germany, between a man who grows up
believing himself to be a chivalrous public schoolboy
and a woman who tries to live loyally under a
repressive regime.
Click
here to buy a copy of the audiobook from Isis
Publishing. |
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