by Owen Oakeshott | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog
In October last year, I joined the company of the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie at the St Martins Theatre in London’s West End – and today, March 19th, it will celebrate its 30,000th performance since its opening night at the...
by Owen Oakeshott | Aug 31, 2022 | Blog
At the beginning of March this year, I got a call from the agent asking whether I’d be interested in the part of Sir Wilfrid Robarts in Witness for the Prosecution, the hit show parked in the glorious old County Hall on the South Bank. According to the agent, the...
by Owen Oakeshott | Aug 18, 2022 | News
I can currently be seen giving my Sir Wilfred Robarts in hit West End show, Witness for the Prosecution, at County Hall – until September 2022
by Owen Oakeshott | Jul 2, 2017 | Blog
December, 1975, Dunmore Infants School, Abingdon, and Simon and I are performing in the school nativity play. Simon is the front-end of a camel, I am the back, and we’re both starting to drip with sweat under a heavy sheet and a bank of lights. Led by three very...