Lighthouse Theatre is very pleased to announce that we have been awarded an Arts Council and a Ty Cerdd Grant to assist in our autumn tour of this year. We are in partnership with Pontardawe Arts Centre and we are touring Stephen Jeffreys adaptation of Charles Dickens' Hard Times all over Wales. See https://www.lighthouse-theatre.co.uk/ or https://www.facebook.com/LighthouseTheatreLtd/ for more information.
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Introducing the Company: Adrian Metcalfe, Cast
Adrian's first professional role in 1993 was as Sinbad Sailors in Under Milk Wood directed by Sir Anthony Hopkins. Since then, Adrian has toured all over Britain, worked extensively in Europe, and appeared on S4C, the BBC and Channel 4. He has worked for the Olivier-award winning North Country Theatre in The Confessions of Brother Wormwood, The Rules of the Game and The Imitation Game. For Bill Kenwright, he has appeared in Wait Until Dark, Murder on Air, and Lark Rise To Candleford. Other recent theatre credits include Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Macduff in Macbeth and Fluellen in Henry V - all directed by Joe Harmston; Capulet in Romeo and Juliet for the RSC and Theatre by the Lake; Nick in Bedroom Farce, Polignac in Dry Rot and Pumblechook in Great Expectations at Theatre by the Lake; and Dylan Thomas in Reminiscences of Childhood for Arts Council Wales.On television, he has been seen as James Bonney in S4C's Môr-Ladron and a variety of roles in the BBC's The Bobinogs. He has recently been seen on BB Wales' Weatherman Walking and will soon be seen on our screens as Dylan Thomas in Telesgop's production, Rock and Roll Poet, Organ Donations Wales' national bi-lingual advertising campaign, Soldier in Vikings: The Legacy. Adrian is also the co-director of Lighthouse Theatre, and has written and produced a variety of shows including Warmley, Throw Away Your Bedsocks and Goat Street Runners, a new play about the Blitz' on Swansea. The company have toured South America twice with Noel Coward's Still Life and She Stoops to Conquer. Last year, they toured Wales with a highly successful research and development project on Malcolm Pryce's best-selling comic novel, Aberystwyth Mon Amour. This is the eighth show in which he will appear with Sonia Beck for Lighthouse and their fourteenth together in total.
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