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CHERI
Visit www.cherithemusical.com to hear William on the demo of this new musical, based on Colette's novel CHÉRI. Written by Michael Yale and Charlie Round-Turner, the demo tracks feature vocal performances by Frances Ruffelle, Cassidy Janson and many others. William can be heard on Back on the Scene. |
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| William appeared with vocal group IN THE MEANTIME at the Westport Arts Festival in Ireland in October 2009, alongside Claire Askam, Susan Griffiths and Emma Scholes, and led by musical director Tom Fowkes. Visit the Festival's website here: www.westportartsfestival.com |
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In July 2008, William performed at La Bodega at the Henley Fringe Festival in June, alongside Claire Askam, Rachel May, Annie Walker and Martin Howard, again 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.
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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, 2006, 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.
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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
nervous eldest son. |
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JOURNEY’S END
directed by David Grindley
On tour around the UK in 2004 and 2005, 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
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THE RESISTIBLE RISE
OF ARTURO UI directed by Phillip Breen, December 2003
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, January-March 2002
William 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 for more info. |
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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)
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here to buy a copy of the audiobook from Isis
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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.
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