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  2. IAIN GLEN

    ABERDEEN
    UNIVERSITY
    THEATRE
    (1980)

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    PLAYS PERFORMED:
    1979 The Crucible Arthur Miller Marshal Herrick
    1980 Major Barbara Bernard Shaw Lomax
    1980 Ballboys David Edgar One-Eye
    1980 The Physicists Friedrich Durrenmatt Sir Isaac Newton
    1980 Beyond The Fridge Late Night Review  
    1980 The Rogue and Peasant's Slave Nicky Campbell  
    1981 As You Like It William Shakespeare Amiens+First Lord
    1981 The Magus Calderon De La Barca The Devil
    1981 Bent Martin Sherman Maximilian Berber


    Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1980

    The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt

    REVIEWS

    The play was written by Swiss-German Friedrich Durrenmatt after the wholesale destruction of World War 11 and following the explosions of the first and only atomic bombs. The question of scientific responsibility is raised (or avoided) by three physicists... all inmates of an expensive Swiss asylum run by an eccentric sinister psychiatrist. They choose to hide themselves away rather than reveal their discoveries to a world that has yet to demonstrate sufficient moral responsibility. Aberdeen University Theatre entertaining production reveals a play that is a perfectly structured piece of classical theatre and very funny too, with its serious undertones seldom far beneath the surface.

    Glasgow Herald, Peter Staffel

    Iain Glen is brilliant as 'Newton'. Behind his unruffled civility lurked, without the least trace of overacting, the cynical mendacity of a power politician. His acting threw considerable light on what the head of the asylum meant when she declared: "It is I who decide who my patients think they are."

    The Scotsman, Mario Relich




    Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1981

    Bent by Martin Sherman

    REVIEWS

    Fringing” the Festival poses an inevitable challenge - how to winnow wheat from chaff. But when one discovers among the bumper harvest of drama anything as fine as Aberdeen University Theatre's interpretation of Martin Sherman's Bent, one feels the search has been worth the effort. The cast is in character - and in difficult roles indeed. This play, ranging from extremes of love to extremes of brutality, makes a plea for understanding tolerance of homosexual love. Act two shows the suffering and degradation which twp homosexuals are made to endure in a Nazi concentration camp. The two men, brilliantly played by Iain Glen and Simon Donald, hold fast to their humanity as long as they can still share a felling of love. Aberdeen shows rare power and maturity here.

    The Times Educational Supplement, Christopher Rathbone

    The performances of Iain Glen as Mac and Simon Donald as Horst have a quiet authority, and intelligent direction by Nick Peters conveys the horrifying circumstances against which the gradually acknowledged love between the two men develops.

    The Glasgow Herald, Helen Murdoch



    The Megus

    REVIEWS

    Nicholas Campbell was impressive as Cyprian, a bespectacled and Faust-like seeker after truth, and Iain Glen gave a powerful performance as the sneering Lucifer who seeks to destroy him.

    The Scotland, John Clifford

    This production has the virtues as well as the faults of student drama. Among the former is the willingness to disinter a classic version of the Faust scene - there being a suavely effective Devil played by Iain Glen. There is also an enthusiasm which proves sporadically infectious when applied to the contemporary setting of Europe. The defects are the usual ones of faulty diction and stagecraft, and a lack of resources to help create the necessary illusion.

    The Glasgow herald, Keith Gibbs

  3. Credits

    The Physicists

    Alistair Hunter
    Inspector Richard Voss

    Nicky Campbell
    Fraulein Doktor Mathilac Von Zand

    Nina Sbresni
    Sister Marta Boll

    Iain Glen
    Newton

    James Reid Baxter
    Einstein

    Simon Donald
    Blocher

    Kim Fenton
    Johann Wilheim Mobius

    Jennifer Turner
    Frau Rose

    Alan Campbell
    Herr Rose

    Kate Symington
    Nurse Monika Stettler

    Paul Spero
    Uwe Sievers

    Leslie Kacznarek
    McArthur

    Robert Harley
    Murillo

    Alan Campbell
    Police Doctor

    Alan Campbell
    Directer

    Graham Johnston
    Designer




    Bent

    Iain Glen
    Max

    Nicky Campbell
    Rudy

    Allan Graham
    Wolf

    Nick Peters
    Lieutenant

    Allan Robb
    2nd Lieutenant

    Kim Fenton
    Greta

    Allan Robb
    Victor

    Alistair Hunter
    Freddie

    Simon Donald
    Horst

    Michael Duke
    Guard on train

    Guy Peploe
    Officer

    Allan Robb
    Kapo

    Tony Campbell
    Corporal

    Guy Peploe
    Captain

    Nick Peters
    Director

    Caroline Newton
    Production Assistant

    Nicky Campbell / Kim Fenton
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    Iain Glen is brilliant as 'Newton'. Behind his unruffled civility lurked, without the least trace of overacting, the cynical mendacity of a power politician.






























    The two men, brilliantly played by Iain Glen and Simon Donald, hold fast to their humanity as long as they can still share a feeling of love.

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