Kenneth McClellan
Kenneth McClellan was actor, producer, playwright and trade unionist (ten years on the Council of Equity).
The son of a theatrical manager, he started at fifteen, and learned from his father and older colleagues.
He toured with the Old Vic Company, and appeared in the West End, on Broadway, and with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He worked in radio, television and films, and had plays staged and broadcast.
He co-ran the First Folio Theatre Company, dedicated to the Elizabethan staging of Shakespeare out of doors. Later he formed Sharers & Hirelings, which became Logos Theatre Company.
In 1979, his book Whatever Happened To Shakespeare? explored with wry humour what he saw as a long history of distorting the playwright’s work in production.
He died in 2004, within weeks of playing Shakespeare’s John of Gaunt for Logos.
See also <http://logostheatrelondon/kenneth.mcclellan/index.htm>. and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/aug/24/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
Past productions
- John Gabriel Borkman, John Gabriel Borkman, Logos Theatre Company
- Dr Görtler, I Have Been Here Before, Logos Theatre Company
- Director, The Roman Actor, Sharers and Hirelings
- Roman Senator, Coriolanus, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Inmate, The Changeling, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Sam Hoke, Night Watch, Ray Cooney Productions Ltd
- Court Official, Caesar and Cleopatra, Chichester Festival Theatre Company
- Alderman Joseph Helliwell, When We Are Married, Colchester Repertory Company
- Mr Baker, Come Blow Your Horn, Folk Theatre Ltd and Pembroke Players
- Hostile Witness, Folk Theatre Ltd and Pembroke Players
- Director, That’s the Truth (If You Think So), Theatre Borough Ten
- Mr Blazy, Fata Morgana, New Pembroke Theatre Ltd
- Official, Lady at the Wheel
- Romeo and Juliet