Brian Jones More about Brian Jones?

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 of the cast.

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.