The stage
In a career now spanning more than 30 years,
James is at equally at home with Shakespeare, Orton, Schaffer... and pantomime. The list of roles you see here is not
exhaustive: merely illustrative of his wide experience in both serious and comic theatre.
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Theatre roles
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This is a list of the stage roles James has played over the
years. The photo here is from the 1997 production Funny Peculiar. |
Appearances by year
2009
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Beggars Opera | Peachum | Vanishing Point | Matthew
Lenton |
| The Sweetener | Ed (solo performance) | Arts in Motion | Dave Smith |
2007
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Of Mice and Men | Boss | Perth Theatre | Ian Grieve |
2005
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Great Expectations | Wemmick / Co-composer | Perth Theatre | Graham McLaren |
| Use Once and Destroy | Jack | Squidge Productions | Martin Daraz |
| Jha Rags | Narrator | Native Flame Company | Gail Pallin |
2003
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Cinderella | Baron Hardup | Brunton Theatre | . |
| Julius Caesar | Various | Lyceum Theatre | David M Thomson |
| A Most Curious Murder | Director | Recusant Prodns | . |
2002
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Without a Trace | Ingenhousz | Sounds of Progress | Gerda Stevenson |
2001
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Sleeping Beauty | King/MD/composer | Brunton | David M Thomson |
| The Gentle Shepherd | Sir William | Concerto Caledonia | Andrew McKinnon |
2000
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Romeo and Juliet | Capulet | Brunton | David M Thomson |
| Aladdin | Abanazar/MD | Brunton | David M Thomson |
1999
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Confessions of a Justified Sinner | 6 parts | Brunton | David M Thomson |
1997
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Run for Your Wife | John Smith | Perth | Michael Winter |
| Funny Peculiar | Harry Asquith/Desmond Ainsley | Perth | Michael Winter |
| As You Like It | Touchstone | Perth | Michael Winter |
| The Mating Game | Mike | Perth | Michael Winter |
1996
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Pygmalion | Doolittle | Lyceum | Hugh Hodgart |
| Portrait of a Woman | Lacroix | Communicado | Gerry Mulgrew |
1995
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Slab Boys | Curry | Byre | Ken Alexander |
| Untied We Stand | Husband | Highland Festival | Alasdair Cording |
| Caucasian Chalk Circle | Herald / MD | Lyceum | Gerard Murphy |
1994
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Twelfth Night | Feste | Lyceum/Salisbury
/Tour of China | Debora Paige |
1993
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Loot | Truscott | Byre | Catriona Taylor |
| School For Wives | Pianist/Various | Lyceum | Ian Woolridge |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | Asst Director | Edinburgh Grand Opera | Gerry Mulgrew |
| Sunshine Boys | Eddie | Lyceum | Maureen Lipman |
1992
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Arsenic and Old Lace | Sergeant | Lyceum | Ben Twist |
| Cuttin' a Rug | Curry | Lyceum | Ben Twist |
| Turandot | Asst Director | Edinburgh Grand Opera | Gerry Mulgrew |
| Hobbit | Writer/Asst Dir | Texaco Smr School | Annie Inglis |
| Beauty and the Beast | Father | Lyceum | Hugh Hodgart |
1991
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| 84 Charing Cross Road | Frank Doel | Byre | Maggie Kinloch |
1990
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|
| Duchess of Malfi | Bosola | Royal Lyceum | Hugh Hodgart |
| Danton's Death | Lacroix | Communicado | Gerry Mulgrew |
1989
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Improbabilities | Various | Loose Exchange | Nigel Halon |
| Cinderella | King John/Black Douglas | Royal Lyceum | Hugh Hodgart |
1988
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Man With the Hoe | Dad | Loose Exchange | Nigel Halon |
| Germinal | Levaque | Paines Plough | Pip Broughton |
1985
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Book Depository Blues | Superintendent | Cakes and Ale | Sydnee Blake |
1984
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Noonday Demons | St Eusebius | London Dungeon | Lynne McVernon |
| Insignificance | Professor | Westcliff | Barbara Houseman |
1982
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Ella's Fella | Dee / MD | Cafe Encore, London | Kevin Williams |
| Wizard of Oz | Wizard of Oz | Croydon Ashcroft | Peter Clapham |
| Spider's Web | Inspector Lord | Westcliff | Chris Dunham |
1981
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Amadeus | Venticello 3 | National Theatre | Giles Block |
1980
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Ragman | Tantalus/Demetrius | Westminster | Neil Fitzwilliam |
| A Bedful of Foreigners | Karak | Tour | Terry Scott |
| Rock Nativity | Innkeeper/Daw | Reading Hexagon | Jeremy J Taylor |
1979
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Barricade | Joachim | Paines Plough | John Adams |
| Six Feet Apart | Loudon | Paines Plough | Howard Kingston |
| The Messiah of Ismir | De Tournefort | Paines Plough | John Adams |
| Pinocchio | Gepetto | Pocket Theatre | David Robertson |
1978
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Odyssey | Various | Theatre Workshop | The Group |
| Commedia Dell Arte | Various | Theatre Workshop | The Group |
| A Spy Tale | Various | Theatre Workshop | The Group |
| Blockbuster | Monkey/Lover etc | Theatre Workshop | Andrew Dallmeyer |
| Inuit | Berdon | Paines Plough | John Adams |
1977
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
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| Twelfth Night | Valentine | Bolton Octagon | Wilfred Harrison |
| Othello | Various | Bolton Octagon | Wilfred Harrison |
| As You Like It | Amiens | Bolton Octagon | Felicity Taylor |
| Beowulf | Beowulf | Theatre Workshop | The Group |
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