After working with Ballet Theatre UK's tour I decided to leave after feeling unfulfilled in the small company and wanted to do something bigger while I still could. I found my answer in the company Ballet West who tour China every year with a production. I had heard that they wanted a guest principal to play Mercutio that year in Romeo and Juliet...KER CHING another role to cross off my list thought I!!
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| L to R: Me, Jonathan and Duncan |
I was offered the job and went off to Scotland to rehearse. Still to this day I have never worked with a nicer bunch of people; the corps de ballet was made up of students from the company's school but the principals were all guests like myself, and this is where Duncan Saul and I became Thick as Thieves. With Duncan Saul playing Benvolio, Jonathan Barton (Resident Principal) playing Romeo and myself playing Mercutio we formed a group of lads akin of the romantic ballet's trio of friends that any method actor would have been impressed.
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| Our dressing room labelled: Heroes' dressing room |
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| Streets of Shanghai |
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| Shanghai Opera House |
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