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Brian Jones
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Brian Jones
Performance Director, "La Ronde"
Ancient and more or less bald veteran of the amateur stage, Brian has
belonged to three other drama groups in his time. They all eventually
foundered leaving him cast up on the welcoming shores of the Canterbury
Players. He has not proved a very active member until the production of
La Ronde, where he finds himself an old sweat among the younger bloods
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Brian made his debut at the age of six as Bashful in a version
of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at which he displayed
a level of prowess he may never have surpassed.
He has a frightening list of acting roles on his conscience,
some quite memorable and others that he tries to forget. His
early promise appears to have faltered to the point where
he has been obliged to take up directing, at which he now
has had six previous attempts. Among these were:
- Girandoux
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- Shaw’s “Arms and the Man”
- Sternheim’s “Bloomers”
- “Marlowe: the Inquest” of which he blushingly
admits he was the author.
When the dust has settled after “La Ronde” -
and so long as he pays his subscriptions to the Canterbury
Players - there is every possibility that he will be allowed
to paint bits of scenery invisible to audiences and to knock
nails into small pieces of wood.
BRAN JONES' REVIEWS:
"This was an adventurous undertaking and the Players once again exhibited
their exhilirating grasp of a challenge and professional skills in realising its
success."
(La Ronde, reviewed by Elaine Godden,
Kentish Gazette.)
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