Ian Charleson
Major theatre credits

Ian Charleson

Section Title: Major theatre credits
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Year	Title	Role	Director	Playwright	Theatre

1972	Bible One, Part I: The Genesis Mediaeval Mystery Plays: The Creation to Jacob	Angels / Noah's son	Frank Dunlop	Frank Dunlop (adapter)	Young Vic Theatre Company at the Edinburgh International Festival Young Vic Theatre The Roundhouse

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat	Gad	Frank Dunlop	Andrew Lloyd Webber Tim Rice	Young Vic Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival Young Vic Theatre The Roundhouse

The Comedy of Errors	Police Officer / Singer	Frank Dunlop	Shakespeare	Young Vic Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Festival Young Vic Theatre

1973	Look Back in Anger	Jimmy Porter	Bernard Goss	John Osborne	Young Vic Theatre

Hobson's Choice	Freddy Beenstock	Bernard Goss	Harold Brighouse	Young Vic Theatre

1973–74	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Hamlet Guildenstern	Bernard Goss	Tom Stoppard	Young Vic Theatre

1974	Much Ado About Nothing	Claudio	Frank Dunlop	Shakespeare	Young Vic Theatre

1974	The Taming of the Shrew	Lucentio	Frank Dunlop	Shakespeare	Young Vic Theatre Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

Scapino	Ottavio	Frank Dunlop	Molière Frank Dunlop

French Without Tears	Brian Curtis	Frank Dunlop	Terence Rattigan

1974	The School for Scandal	Moses	Robert Lang	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Cambridge Theatre Company (touring)

1974	Six Characters in Search of an Author	Member of the Acting Company	Richard Cottrell	Pirandello	Cambridge Theatre Company (touring)

1974–75	Hamlet	Hamlet	Richard Cottrell	Shakespeare	Cambridge Theatre Company (touring)

1975–76	Otherwise Engaged	Dave	Harold Pinter	Simon Gray	Oxford Playhouse Richmond Theatre Queen's Theatre

1977	Julius Caesar	Octavius	John Schlesinger	Shakespeare	National Theatre (Olivier Theatre)

Volpone	Peregrine	Peter Hall	Ben Jonson

The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Captain Phoebus	Michael Bogdanov	Ken Hill	National Theatre (Cottlesloe Theatre)

1978–1979	The Tempest	Ariel	Clifford Williams	Shakespeare	Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon Aldwych Theatre, London

The Taming of the Shrew	Tranio	Michael Bogdanov

Love's Labour's Lost	Longaville	John Barton

1978–1980	Piaf	Man at rehearsal / Pierre	Howard Davies	Pam Gems	The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle Warehouse Theatre, London Aldwych Theatre, London Wyndham's Theatre, London

1979	Once in a Lifetime	Lawrence Vail	Trevor Nunn	Moss Hart George Kaufman	Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre

The Innocent	Joe Maguire	Howard Davies	Tom McGrath	Warehouse Theatre

1982	Guys and Dolls	Sky Masterson	Richard Eyre	Frank Loesser Abe Burrows Damon Runyon	National Theatre (Olivier Theatre)

1984–85	Fool for Love	Eddie	Peter Gill	Sam Shepard	National Theatre (Cottlesloe Theatre) Lyric Theatre

1985–86	After Aida	Boito	Howard Davies	Julian Mitchell	Taliesin Theatre, Swansea Old Vic Theatre

1986	Cricket	Donald	Trevor Nunn	Andrew Lloyd Webber Tim Rice	Windsor Castle

1988	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Brick	Howard Davies	Tennessee Williams	National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre)

1989	Bent	Greta / George	Sean Mathias	Martin Sherman	Adelphi Theatre (benefit for Stonewall)

Hamlet	Hamlet	Richard Eyre	Shakespeare	National Theatre (Olivier Theatre)

Sentence(s)

Charleson played Eddie in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love (1984–85).

final_sentence: Charleson played Eddie in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love (1984–85).