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Millers Night
On the last Thursday of each month, we have our
social evening.
It's a friendly, informal occasion and an ideal opportunity
to make
yourself known to Canterbury Players - and vice versa.
Please feel free to come along to the Millers Arms,
Mill Lane, Canterbury, at around 8.30pm to say hello.
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Mark Charles Smith
Actor: For Canterbury Players Gosforth's
Fete; La Ronde; Fallen
Angels; The Accrington
Pals; Much Ado
About Nothing; Arsenic And Old
Lace; Dark of the Moon, Night
Must Fall; The Importance
of Being Earnest, Barefoot in
the Park.
Sound Engineer for Blue Remembered
Hills.
For Chilham Players: Seasons Greetings
For Kent Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night.
A monologue orator for The
Penis Monologues for the theatre company, Unfinished
Business
Mark has appeared in a number of Canterbury Players productions, as
well as end of year short films at universities in Canterbury and Hastings,
as a film extra for various productions filmed in Kent including "The
Other Boleyn Girl", "Wild Child", the 2011 production of
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", as a player in a Chris Tarrant
TV programme, as a major player in a KETV
production called 'The Sea Shall Have Them' and recently took part in
a pilot for a new sitcom aimed at getting onto the UK terrestrial channels.
Mark is looking for more TV and film work to get him out of the office
once in a while.
My Facebook page.
Links to recent videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY9qcWjPomk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwE-cdMAu88 |
Mark's acting roles include:
- Stewart Stokes in Ayckbourne's "Gosforth’s
Fete". Chosen for this role for his drinking habits
as much as anything else....
- The Soldier (Franz) in Arthur Schnitzler's "La
Ronde" (Reigen) at Whitstable Playhouse, playing
a callous mean bastard for a change..... ;-)
- Ralph - a 20 year old soldier in Peter Whelan's
"The
Accrington Pals" at the Gulbenkian theatre, in
which he appeared naked in a bath tub. Not a pretty sight!
- Maurice Duclos - a suave Frenchman in Noel Coward's
'Fallen Angels'
- Conrade, kicking boy for Don John the Bastard
in Shakespeare's 'Much
Ado About Nothing'.
- Captain and 1st/2nd Officers in Twelfth
Nght, by the Kent
Shakespeare Company.
- A monologue orator for The
Penis Monologues for the theatre company, Unfinished
Business
Further roles include:
- Online audio and video created for clients' websites
- Film extra work (man in a black cloak) for "The
Other Boleyn Girl", "Wild Child" and a number
of others.
Mark in costume for The
Other Boleyn Girl
Here Mark was helping
Media Studies students with their final year projects,
whilst gaining a little experience with acting for
a camera rather than an audience.
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MARK SMITH'S REVIEWS:
"Other members of the cast were only slightly less convincing in their roles
and each had credible qualities: ...... Mark Smith's Soldier's
callous but sexy disregard."
This was Mark's second acting experience, the first being Gosforth's
Fete.
(La Ronde, reviewed by Elaine Godden,
Kentish Gazette.)
"In Ralph's last letter from the Somme, to his lover Eva, Mark Smith demonstrated spiritual and physical agony."
(The
Accrington Pals reviewed by Elaine Godden, Kentish Gazette.)
Mark Smith as Maurice, tantalizingly appearing only in the final scene, gave
the ex-lover all the Gallic charm needed for empathy with the besotted ladies.
(Fallen Angels, reviewed by Delia
Dengeon, Kentish Gazette.)
"All the actors demonstrated the hilarity of Kesselring's marvellous
play."
(Arsenic And Old Lace, reviewed by Nina Del
Gedoe, Kentish Gazette.)
"The acting skills of ........ Mark Smith ............
were revealed when each one was convincingly near to collapse after climbing innumerable
flights of stairs to get there."
"Every actor in this production demonstrated both comedic and dramatic qualities in a play impeccably directed by Ian Burroughs, assisted by Huw Jones."
(Barefoot In the Park.)
A review of a short film made in 2009:
"It was an intriguing short film and maintained my interest throughout.
Your performance was excellent. You can certainly can act for the camera. Not
everyone can. Every thing about your performance was right. I especially liked
your little turns to the girl every now and then and your look of despair (or
resignation) at something the girl said. You photograph well and have a most
interesting face. Your performance was solid and just what the role called for.
Well done."
Reveiwed by Pip Piacentino, Director
of, and actor in, a number of Canterbury Players performances.
Review of "The Penis Monologues" written by Danny Lee Pegg of Unfinished Business Theatre Company.
Please contact Mark using the email form below.
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