Name: | Ian Collyer |
Nickname: | Not known – it must be used behind my back! At school it was (obviously) ‘Cauliflower’. |
Role in Poets Day: | Borg |
Favourite Scene: | The curtain call (in any show): if the show’s gone well, then the audience reaction is great; if it hasn’t, then there’s only a short time before you can run away and hide. |
Started Acting Aged: | 6 (A drum in Santa’s sack) |
Top 3 Roles That You’ve Played: | John Worthing in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ |
The Judge in ‘Trial by Jury’ | |
Doc in ‘West Side Story’ | |
Other Roles/Productions: | ‘Peer Gynt’, ‘Dido and Aeneas’, ‘Sisterly Feelings’ (Ayckbourn’),
– all as director. |
Where Were You Born: | Pinner – in the Maitland nursing home, Marsh Road, now flats, which I visited at the time I was born on my 50th birthday! |
Favourite Actors: | Simon Russell Beale, Peggy Ashcroft, Roger Allam, Judi Dench. |
Favourite Plays: | ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, ‘Intimate Exchanges’ (Ayckbourn), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, ‘Guys and Dolls’. |
Favourite Films: | ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘Tom Jones’, ‘Three Men in a Boat’, ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’. |
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