February 1987 -  December 1989
    Acting Shakespeare, Henceforward..., Othello

Ian McKellen as Coriolanus

 

 "The USA tour of my solo 'Acting Shakespeare' was a response to the failure of 'Wild Honey' on Broadway. 'Henceforward...' for a year in the West End was a response to my coming out as a gay man. My brief return to the Royal Shakespeare Company led back to Trevor Nunn and the familiar territory of subsidised theatrework." — Ian McKellen, October 1999

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The Plays

1987 USA Tour
San Francisco, Washington DC, Princeton, LA, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Diego, Boston 		ACTING SHAKESPEARE (US 1987)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen

1987 Playhouse Theatre
London 		ACTING SHAKESPEARE (London 1987)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen

1988 UK
Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham, Dublin, Belfast, Leicester, Wakefield, Edinburgh, 		ACTING SHAKESPEARE (UK 1988)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen

1988 Delaware Theatre
Wilmington, Delaware 		ACTING SHAKESPEARE (Wilmington)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen

1988 Piccadilly Theatre
London 		Before the Act
Gay and Lesbian writers and composers


 ROLE: Producer/Uncle Freddie
1988 Playhouse Theatre
London 		ACTING SHAKESPEARE (London 1988)
From Shakespeare with commentary by Ian McKellen

1988 Vaudeville Theatre
London 		HENCEFORWARD...
Alan Ayckbourn
 ROLE: Jerome
1989 Haymarket Theatre
London 		Promenaid


1989 Adelphi Theatre
London 		BENT (1989)
Martin Sherman
 ROLE: Max


1989 Royal Shakespeare Company
The Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon; The Young Vic, 		OTHELLO
William Shakespeare
 DIRECTOR: Trevor Nunn
ROLE: Iago
London Evening Standard Award - Best Actor
London Critics' Circle Award - Best Actor


January 1990 -  September 1992
    Richard III and the Royal National Theatre

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