Ros has been working in theatre since she was 10. She trained at LAMDA and has established a career in classical theatre. In complete contrast, she has earned a reputation for playing ‘mesmeric’ witches in Christmas shows. Her recent favourite work includes: Stage: Romeo & Juliet; Macbeth; Merry Wives of Windsor; Marriage of Figaro; The Taming of the Shrew; The Bacchae; The Rover; Wild Oats; Amy’s View (for which she won Daily Echo Best Actress award); A View from the Bridge; Habeas Corpus; The Hour of the Lynx; Dancing at Lughnasa; Having a Ball; Blue Kettle; Shirley Valentine; Equus; Same Time Next Year; Peter Pan; The Wizard of Oz. Musicals: The Beggars Opera; The Threepenny Opera; The Circus of Time; Gingerbread Man Cabaret: Women of a Certain Reputaion; Nostalgia; Christmas Crackers (touring seasonal cabaret, three years). "beautiful piece of drama...mesmerising to watch...the control and emotion that was shown by Kevin Colson and Ros Liddiard drew our attention to how talented they are" "Kevin Colson (Rodion) and Ros Liddiard (Lidya) are thoroughly convincing...the blend of sincerity and joie de vivre which the two performers commit forms the expressive core of a sustainedly affecting, unsentimental piece of drama" Time Out London "The production amply captures the autumnal feel of Arbuzov’s gentle love story....some beautiful sequences with closely observed direction, allowing the story to develop at its own pace and rhythm and keeping the dialogue alive with controlled and precise work from the actors. Ros Liddiard gives Lidya a skittish coquettishness that shifts into something more melancholy and fragile later. We follow the ebbs and flows of growing intimacy and emotional barriers being dismantled ...a mature, reflective and ultimately moving production" The Stage Wizard of Oz "a fabulous, vampish Liddiard mesmerised adults and children alike". "truthful, moving portrayal - heartbreaking quiet acceptance of her fate" "Ros Liddiard is at her effortlessly brilliant best" "Ros Liddiard shines as an imperious soprano - she is at her hypnotically menacing best" Kevin Colson
Kevin came to England in 1965 after having successfully established a career in Australian TV and theatre. Some of Kevin's career highlights include: Musicals: World premieres of Aspects of Love, Chess, Children of Eden, Queenie, Jekyll, Two Cities, Maddie, Brontë, Rat Pack Confidential, Murderous Instincts. Original presentations of Woman in White and Sunset Boulevard at the Sydmonton Festival. European premieres of Cabaret (with Judi Dench), Follies and the 21st Anniversary production of Annie. Plays: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sleuth, Hamlet, The Pleasure of his Company, Glass Menagerie, After the Fall, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, Mass Appeal, Charley's Aunt, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, The Destiny of e, Absurd Person Singular. Television: Doctors, Dance to the Music of Time, Spytrap, Woman He Loved, First Among Equals, Police Rescue, Man at the Top, Poor Little Rich Girl. Film: Nightwatch, Khartoum, Star, Brushstroke, Trapped in Space. Andy Burden Peter Liddiard An Architect by profession, Peter has designed numerous productions in a large variety of different types of venue.
Ros Liddiard
Artistic Director - Prime Theatre; Actor
Film/TV: 28 Days Later; Peak Practice; Big Meg; Little Meg; New Canterbury Tales.
Reviews
Old World
Bath Chronicle
Brighton Argos
Amy's View
"captivating, sensitive portrayal"
Daily Echo
Hampshire Chronicle
Daily Echo Best Actress Award
The Hour of the Lynx
"a deeply touching, quiet performance"
Plays International
"sympathetically played"
Sunday Telegraph
Poetry Express
Death Song
The Metro
The Lying Kind
" ..an intriguing performance. This hugely-enjoyable actor puts a warmth and obvious charm into the character"
Fringe Report
The Merry Wives of Windsor
"..particularly Ros Liddiard .. vivacious, an excellent performance"
Salisbury Journal
Actor - Old World
He has since been honoured with a Tony Nomination on Broadway and a Variety Club Award for services to Australian theatre.
Reviews
Acquaintances
"the excellent Kevin Colson as a roguish old party on a park bench"
The Stage
Aspects of Love
"an able actor with suave continental charm"
New York Times
Tony Award Nomination
Mass Appeal:
"Kevin Colson is very moving as the alcoholic parish priest who has long since abandoned his principles for comfort"
British Theatre Guide
Rat Pack Confidential:
"he's the glue that keeps the whole production together. Colson does well"
BBC
Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell
"Kevin Colson in the role is excellent. utterly convincing...bravura performance"
Camden New Journal
Blackwater Angel
"A fine cast including the irrepressible Kevin Colson"
Theatreworld Internet Magazine
Alports Revenge
"brilliantly played by Kevin Colson (with) a charm and warmth that propels the show along"
Time Out
Director
Previous directing includes:
For The Tobacco Factory Searchlights Over Bemmy.
For the Natural Theatre Company Rasputin, In The Eyes Of Cod and Scarlatti In
For Theatre West The Inhabitants Of The Moon Are Noses.
For In Extremis Diary Of A madman. For Innerroom Theatre Company The Truth About Hoggett & Webb, The Chronciles Of Hoggett & Webb, The Fisher King, The Tempest, In A Room, Six Is Nine, Dambusters!, My Big Desk, The Lesson and Shirley Valentine.
For Big State: Fallen Angels, Walk This Way, Spaghetti Weston Super Mare, Hitting Dennis, and Sixteen Types Of Happiness.
Andy adapted The Fisher King and Searchlights Over Bemmy and has scripted The Truth About Hoggett & Webb and The Chronciles Of Hoggett & Webb and devised ten other shows.
Andy was the Artistic Director of The Rondo Theatre from 2001 to 2007, and continues as a freelance director.
Reviews
"One of the sharpest, funniest and angriest shows this writer has ever seen"
"Andy Burden's roller-coaster anarchistic production: glorious tomfoolery, infectious musical arrangements and excruciating jokes!"
Rheinische Post
"Faultless and awe inspiring"
Leicester Mercury
"First-rate - a tight, hilarious piece imbued with plenty of madcappery"
Venue
"Slickness personified - one of the funniest comedies on the fringe"
The Scotsman
Company Manager, Designer, Stage Manager
for The Maskers Theatre Company - Pride & Prejudice, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Alice (Mottisfont Abbey), Misery, Amy’s View, An Ideal Husband, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, When The Wind Blows, Rebecca (Nuffield Theatre)
for A Motley Crew - The Fox, The Marriage of Figaro, The Taming of the Shrew (Breamore Barn), Dancing At Lunaca, Threepenny Opera, Tartuffe, The Shaugran, Fair Maid of the West (Melchett Court)
for Salisbury Playhouse - Christmas Crackers (Salberg Studio)
for The Chesil Theatre - Role Play, Neville’s Island, A View from the Bridge, The Killing of Sister George (Chesil Theatre)
for Boil & Bubble Theatre Company - The Witching Hour; Strawberry Time (Alma Tavern Theatre, Rondo Theatre)
for Theatre West - The Inhabitants of the Moon are Noses (Alma Tavern Theatre, Rondo Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre)
for Stepping Out Theatre Company/ In Extremis/Group Z - Diary of a Madman (Rondo Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre)
for Southampton Operatic - HMS Pinafore (Mayflower Theatre)
