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Arsenic And Old Lace

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Bazaar and Rummage

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Poster by www.canterbury-art.co.uk

Blue Remembered Hills, by Dennis Potter. Our June 2008 production. Poster by www.canterbury-art.co.uk

Noel Coward's Fallen Angels. Poster by  www.canterbury-art.co.uk

Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam

Peter Whelan's The Accrington Pals

La Ronde, a play by Arthur Schnitzler



Mark Smith
Mark Smith. Actor and the web site manager. More about Mark.
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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
Sound Engineer for Blue Remembered Hills.
For Chilham Players: Seasons Greetings
For Kent Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night.

Mark is pleased to be back in rehearsal with the Canterbury Players after a brief foray at Mt. Ephraim with Kent Shakespeare Company's production of 'Twelfth Night'. He is looking forward to his first 'farce'. (Comments will surely appear after that statement!)

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" and "Wild Child", in a Chris Tarrant TV programme called 'Tarrant Lets the Kids Loose' and as a major player in a KETV production called 'The Sea Shall Have Them'.

Mark is looking for more TV and film work to get him out of the office once in a while.

My Facebook page.
A recent video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY9qcWjPomk



Previous experience within the media, theatre and music worlds include:

  • Playing a bare assed bunny in his first school play at 5 years old (someone kindly unravelled his tail before he made it to the stage, knocking his confidence at playing the role completely)
  • Being kicked out of the choir within 5 minutes of the singing starting (he learnt a little about rapid fault finding techniques from that little exercise)
  • Not having to prompt in Ayckbourne's "Roleplay" and Pinter's "The Birthday Party"

Mark's first serious 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.

Further roles include:

  • Online audio and video created for clients' websites
  • Film extra work (man in a black cloak) for "The Other Boleyn Girl" with Eric Bana (The Hulk; Chopper) Scarlett Johannsen (Lost in Translation; The Black Dahlia) and Natalie Portman (Cold Mountain; Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith) as his co-stars - release date late 2007
  • More extra work on "Wild Child" in the summer of 2007, with Alex Pettyfer (Stormbreaker), Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson and others.

But seriously.....

In costume for The Other Boleyn Girl
Mark in costume for The Other Boleyn Girl
Innocent. A media studies student film
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.

 

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.)

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.


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