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 | 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...
by Owen Oakeshott | Dec 13, 2015 | Blog
Lurching from feast to famine like a drunk on an ocean-liner, actors are the walking, talking expression of the 21st century binge economy. During a spell of gainful employment, it’s Krug through a straw, wads of notes down the cleavage and devil take the...