by Owen Oakeshott | Aug 7, 2026 | Blog
Two Shakespeare comedies, one world war, twenty years of Guildford Shakespeare Company and a great deal of government-surplus wool. James Sheldon as Berowne, Chirag Benedict Lobo as Dumaine, Matt Pinches as Longaville and Owen Oakeshott as the Prince of Navarre in...
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