Christopher Benjamin
Past productions
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Sir John Falstaff,
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare’s Globe
19th August – 11th December 2010,
Shakespeare’s Globe (Bankside), London, Richmond Theatre, London, and other locations.
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Headmaster,
A Voyage Round My Father
8th June – 16th December 2006,
Donmar Warehouse, London and Wyndham’s Theatre, London.
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Colonel Selby,
Waters of the Moon, Salisbury Playhouse
January – 7th February 2004,
Salisbury Playhouse.
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Dogberry,
Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company
27th July (press night) – 22nd August 2002,
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
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Dogberry,
Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company
9th May (press night) – 13th July 2002,
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Selsdon Mowbray,
Noises Off
2000 – 2001,
Theatre Royal, Bath.
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Earl of Kent,
King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company
3rd December 1999 (press night),
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Earl of Kent,
King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company
28th October 1999 (press night),
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Earl of Kent,
King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company
23rd September (press night) – 11th October 1999,
Saitama Arts Theater, Tokyo, Japan.
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H C Curry,
110 in the Shade, The Lost Musicals
4th – 25th July 1999,
Fortune Theatre, London.
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Amadeus
1998 – 1999,
Theatre Royal, Bath.
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Count Orsini-Rosenberg,
Amadeus, Peter Hall Company
September – ? 1998,
The Old Vic, London and UK Tour.
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Mayor,
The Front Page, Donmar Warehouse
10th December 1997 – 28th February 1998,
Donmar Warehouse, London.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1996 – 1997,
Theatre Royal, Bath.
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Nick Bottom,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Royal Shakespeare Company
12th October 1996 – 24th May 1997,
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, and other locations.
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Nick Bottom,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Royal Shakespeare Company
11th September (press night) – 5th October 1996,
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Julius Caesar,
Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company
23rd May 1996 (press night),
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Capulet,
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company
23rd April 1996 (press night),
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Sir Tunbelly Clumsey,
The Relapse, Royal Shakespeare Company
10th April 1996 (press night),
Pit, London.
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Julius Caesar,
Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company
13th (press night) – 16th March 1996,
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Capulet,
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company
1st (press night) – 9th March 1996,
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Sir Tunbelly Clumsey,
The Relapse, Royal Shakespeare Company
19th (press night) – 27th February 1996,
Newcastle Playhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Julius Caesar
1995 – 1996,
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Rome at the Globe
1995 – 1996,
Shakespeare’s Globe (Bankside), London.
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Julius Caesar,
Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company
5th July 1995 (press night),
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Sir Tunbelly Clumsey,
The Relapse, Royal Shakespeare Company
20th April 1995 (press night),
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Capulet,
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Shakespeare Company
5th April 1995 (press night),
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Romeo and Juliet
started 5th April 1995,
Barbican Theatre, London.
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The Clandestine Marriage
1994 – 1995,
Theatre Royal, Bath.
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Sterling,
The Clandestine Marriage
1994 – 1995,
Queen’s Theatre, (Shaftesbury Ave) London (now Sondheim Theatre, London).
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1993 – 1994,
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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General Bridgenorth,
Getting Married, Chichester Festival Theatre and Duncan C Weldon
30th April – 11th September 1993,
Chichester Festival Theatre, Main Theatre, Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne, and other locations.
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T/O Judge Turpin,
Sweeney Todd, National Theatre
started 22nd May 1993,
National Theatre – Cottesloe Theatre (now National Theatre – Dorfman), National Theatre, London and National Theatre – Lyttelton, National Theatre.
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Artists and Admirers
1992 – 1993,
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Heracles Dulyebov,
Artists and Admirers, Royal Shakespeare Company
13th October 1992 (press night),
Pit, London.
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Martin Alonso Pinzon,
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan, Royal Shakespeare Company
22nd July 1992 (press night),
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Nicholas Gimcrack,
The Virtuoso, Royal Shakespeare Company
2nd April 1992 (press night),
Pit, London.
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The Virtuoso
1991 – 1992,
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
1991 – 1992,
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Roland,
Taking Steps
20th February – 28th April 1991,
Circle in the Square, New York.
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Anatole Aubin,
The Dressmaker, Triumph Proscenium Productions Ltd and Windsor Theatre Company
19th June – 15th September 1990,
Theatre Royal, Bath, Theatre Royal, Windsor, and other locations.
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Bottom,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, New Shakespeare Company
30th May – ? 1989,
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London.
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Frank Foster,
How the Other Half Loves, Bill Kenwright and Greenwich Theatre
4th February – 26th November 1988,
Duke of York’s Theatre, London and Greenwich Theatre, London.
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Gentleman / Vicar / Walter Bray,
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Royal Shakespeare Company
29th December 1987 (press night) – 1st January 1988,
Filmed for television.
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Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington,
The Doctor’s Dilemma, Bristol Old Vic
25th February – 28th March 1987,
Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal.
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Holofernes,
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company
7th August 1985 (press night),
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Pope Clement VI,
Red Noses, Royal Shakespeare Company
2nd July 1985 (press night),
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Polonius,
Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company
16th April 1985 (press night),
Barbican Theatre, London.
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Montfleury,
Cyrano de Bergerac, Royal Shakespeare Company
24th January (press night) – 16th February 1985,
Kennedy Center Washington DC, USA.
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Dogberry,
Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company
24th January (press night) – 16th February 1985,
Kennedy Center Washington DC, USA.