Andy Shewan’s profile

Stage and Technical Manager. Trained at Mountview Theatre School in early 1980s.

Seen, or going to see

Clown, Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal and Tour – UK, Travelling Light Theatre Company co-producing with Bristol Old Vic, 2004 – 9^th April 2005
Into the Woods, Theatre Royal, York, York Theatre Royal, 21^st February – 15^th March 1997
Chicago, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and Cambridge Theatre, London, Crucible Theatre Trust Ltd, Larry Parnes, and Ray Cooney, 23^rd November 1978 – October 1980
Jumpers, Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Mercury Theatre Co, 16^th February – 4^th March 1978
Hamlet, National Theatre – Olivier, National Theatre, National Theatre, 1976
All My Sons, Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Mercury Theatre Company, 19^th May – 5^th June 1976
My Fat Friend, Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Mercury Theatre Company, 18^th February – 6^th March 1976

To Northcott Theatre Company production of Inventing a New Colour, by Paul Godfrey, Northcott Theatre, Exeter, 5th - 30th November 1991: “Not entirely sure about the date of production, as the programme I have doesn’t give the year, I thought it was ‘90 or ‘91, but 30.11.91 was a Saturday, which would usually be the last day of a run at a rep theatre…. interesting production, using the whole of the very large Northcott stage – no wings or masking.”
To Trestle Theatre Company production of Passionfish, Tour - UK and Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, 18th April - 15th September 1996: “information now updated to include full cast”
To Show of Strength production of Good Works, by Nick Enright, Bristol Old Vic - New Vic Studio and The Talbot Inn, Mells, Somerset, September - 5th October 1997: “The Guiness Awards for Pub Theatre were established in 1995. Show of Strength was one of 21 companies nationwide who shared the £150,000 prize fund in 1997.”
To Travelling Light Theatre Company co-producing with Bristol Old Vic production of Clown, by Quentin Blake, Bristol Old Vic - Theatre Royal and Tour - UK, 2004 - 9th April 2005: “I saw this at the Arts Depot in North London – a beautiful physicalisation (is there such a word?) of the drawings and story-telling skill of Quentin Blake.”