David completed a successful run of Danton's Death, by Georg Büchner late in 2010. This new version by Howard Brenton featured Toby Stephens as Georges Danton and was directed by Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage.
Playing on the National Theatre's Olivier Stage, the production played from 22nd July to 14th October 2010.
***** "Michael Grandage uses every square inch of the Olivier to invest the work with the Epic scale it warrants" -
Tim Walker - Sunday Telegraph
**** "Thrilling production... Toby Stephens is in splendid form." - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
**** "A glorious and bloody revolution. A credit to Britain's National Theatre." - Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
**** "Thrilling production... Toby Stephens is in splendid form." - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
**** "A glorious and bloody revolution. A credit to Britain's National Theatre." - Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
Danton's Death on National Theatre website: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/57275/productions/dantons-death.html
DCI Banks: Aftermath, ITV1
DCI Banks aired on Monday 4th October, 9pm on ITV1.
DCI Alan Banks has to investigate the most difficult case of his life. Five young girls have gone missing, and he’s just discovered the lair of a serial rapist and killer. Four bodies. Which means one, Leanne Wray could still be alive…
But the suspect Marcus Payne is in a coma, and the ambitious DS Annie Cabbot, from Professional Standards, wants to know why. As Banks pursues his line of investigation she is ‘tailing’ him every step of the way.
David played Dr Mackenzie in this pilot detective thriller for ITV, produced by Left Bank Pictures ("The Damned United", "Wallander", "School of Comedy"), directed by James Hawes ("Enid", "The 39 Steps", "Dr Who", "Merlin") with Stephen Tompkinson as DCI Banks.
DCI Banks aired on Monday 4th October, 9pm on ITV1.
DCI Alan Banks has to investigate the most difficult case of his life. Five young girls have gone missing, and he’s just discovered the lair of a serial rapist and killer. Four bodies. Which means one, Leanne Wray could still be alive…
But the suspect Marcus Payne is in a coma, and the ambitious DS Annie Cabbot, from Professional Standards, wants to know why. As Banks pursues his line of investigation she is ‘tailing’ him every step of the way.
David played Dr Mackenzie in this pilot detective thriller for ITV, produced by Left Bank Pictures ("The Damned United", "Wallander", "School of Comedy"), directed by James Hawes ("Enid", "The 39 Steps", "Dr Who", "Merlin") with Stephen Tompkinson as DCI Banks.
"The strands intertwine well and every resolution is delightfully unpredictable. We just hope ITV take swift action and commission a full series. We’d like to see more of DCI Banks." -
Ruth Margolis - TV.com
ITV press release: http://www.itv.com/presscentre/pressreleases/programmepressreleases/dcibanksaftermath/default.html
Left Bank Pictures: http://www.leftbankpictures.co.uk/index.php
Left Bank Pictures: http://www.leftbankpictures.co.uk/index.php
Five Days, Series 2, BBC1
"Journey to the River Sea" completes second successful run
"The Postman Always Rings Twice"
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This major five-part drama was striped across five consecutive nights from Monday 1st to Friday 5th March on BBC1.
View a clip of David's appearance in Episode 2 here.
"There is a terrific new five-part BBC One drama series starting on Monday and finishing on Friday - a taut, absorbing, Yorkshire-set saga incorporating everything from Alzheimer's to Allah, by way of adoption and Afghan immigrants... It makes a bold claim for one programme to dominate the schedule in this way. Fortunately, it's a bold claim that Five Days lives up to." -
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent
"The cast is strong, the plot knotty. Watching Five Days I feel in very competent hands" - Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
"Five Days is a big event, with its five instalments strung across consecutive nights from Monday, so I suggest you check your social calendars and make the necessary adjustments, because you won't want to miss an episode." - Alison Graham, Radio Times
"The drama enjoys the luxury of its long span and keeps you guessing right up until the very end. Superlative." - The Observer
"The cast is strong, the plot knotty. Watching Five Days I feel in very competent hands" - Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
"Five Days is a big event, with its five instalments strung across consecutive nights from Monday, so I suggest you check your social calendars and make the necessary adjustments, because you won't want to miss an episode." - Alison Graham, Radio Times
"The drama enjoys the luxury of its long span and keeps you guessing right up until the very end. Superlative." - The Observer
New Footage uploaded
Life is A Dream, Donmar Warehouse
March 2010 - Footage of David in The Marchioness Disaster (YTV Granada), Emmerdale (YTV Granada) & Devil's Snow (Eye Cue Films) uploaded to site.
David has just completed a sell-out run of Jonathan Munby's critically acclaimed production of Life Is A Dream at the Donmar Warehouse.
***** Critics' Choice "Jonathan Munby's rich and startling production winds you tightly in a glittering web of dreams." - Caroline McGinn, Time Out
***** Thrilling theatricality to Jonathan Munby’s vibrantly textured production - Sunday Telegraph
**** "The acting is a joy to behold" - Michael Billington, The Guardian
**** "Classical acting with a twinkle in its eye" - Dominic Maxwell, The Times
**** "A rich and disconcerting play... the cast undoubtedly brings this rich, haunting drama vivid life, catching its humour as well as its profundity" - Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph
"I was transfixed by the entire evening's extraordinary tale" - Quentin Letts, The Daily Mail
**** "A marvellous revival" - Michael Coveney, What's On Stage'
*** "Jonathan Munby's vivid, shrewd...revival at the Donmar" - The Independent
"an absorbing, profound and moral meditation on life and reality. Sometimes the imagery is so magnificent and translucent that it feels as if we have disinterred a lost Shakespeare" - Ben Dowell, The Stage
**** "Wired, weird and a bit wonderful" - The Times
"Jonathan Munby's glowering revival delivers like a branding iron the power of the play, in which brutality is administered along with great waves of philosophy and a winged imagination." - Susannah Clap, The Observer
"themes of mental isolation, vengeance and the illusory thinness of life are given flesh, blood and bone through some terrific acting" - James Woodall, Arts Desk
***** Critics' Choice "Jonathan Munby's rich and startling production winds you tightly in a glittering web of dreams." - Caroline McGinn, Time Out
***** Thrilling theatricality to Jonathan Munby’s vibrantly textured production - Sunday Telegraph
**** "The acting is a joy to behold" - Michael Billington, The Guardian
**** "Classical acting with a twinkle in its eye" - Dominic Maxwell, The Times
**** "A rich and disconcerting play... the cast undoubtedly brings this rich, haunting drama vivid life, catching its humour as well as its profundity" - Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph
"I was transfixed by the entire evening's extraordinary tale" - Quentin Letts, The Daily Mail
**** "A marvellous revival" - Michael Coveney, What's On Stage'
*** "Jonathan Munby's vivid, shrewd...revival at the Donmar" - The Independent
"an absorbing, profound and moral meditation on life and reality. Sometimes the imagery is so magnificent and translucent that it feels as if we have disinterred a lost Shakespeare" - Ben Dowell, The Stage
**** "Wired, weird and a bit wonderful" - The Times
"Jonathan Munby's glowering revival delivers like a branding iron the power of the play, in which brutality is administered along with great waves of philosophy and a winged imagination." - Susannah Clap, The Observer
"themes of mental isolation, vengeance and the illusory thinness of life are given flesh, blood and bone through some terrific acting" - James Woodall, Arts Desk
Spooks: Code 9 Clip Added to Site
11th June 2009 - Footage from Spooks: Code 9 added to the site.
Click here to view the clip.
Unicorn Theatre Ensemble 2008-9
In June 2009, David completed working at the Unicorn Theatre as a founder member of the Unicorn Ensemble.
The ensemble was formed in August 2008 and is worked together for 9 months under the direction of Rosamunde Hutt
and Tony Graham creating four new shows and developing further projects for the company.
Carl Miller's Red Fortress
(18th October - 8th November 2008) was the first production to feature the ensemble and received plaudits from
The Guardian (****) and
Time Out (*****)
as well as smashing its sales targets - proving that new, original and complex children's theatre can attract audiences.
Click here for production images.
A sell-out run of Rosy Fordham's Sleeping Beauty filled the Christmas slot in the Weston Theatre,
followed in the more intimate Clore Theatre by The Cat Who Ran - a semi-devised piece based on the Japanese Poem by Naoko Kudo
("pure delight ... give yourself a treat while you have the chance" -
The British Theatre Guide)
The ensemble's last production of 2008-9 was Rosamunde Hutt's
Twelfth Night,
("*** delightful, imaginatively staged, piercing to the heart of the play’s beauty, melancholy and sexual ambiguity.
Musical direction is first rate - staging is full of good ideas." -
Michael Coveney, Whatsonstage.com) which completed its run on the Weston Stage on 7th June.
David played Orsino and Sir Andrew Aguecheek - for more details click here.
David played Orsino and Sir Andrew Aguecheek - for more details click here.
Recent TV Appearances
31st August 2008, 9pm - Spooks:Code 9 (Episode 5), BBC3 - Now available on DVD
June 2008 - Clerk of Court - Emmerdale "It's A Dogs Life", ITV1
Pinter & a Pair of Chekhov's Shorts
Autumn & Winter 2007 - David appeared as Gus in The Dumb Waiter (Pinter) and Lomov in The Proposal (Chekhov)
for Compass Theatre's national tour.
Well received by audiences and critics alike, these pieces were joined by The Evils Of Tobacco (Chekhov) to
complete the triple bill.
Sheffield Theatres Script Foundry
Sheffield Theatres Script Foundry solicited 150 scripts by Young Writers in early 2007.
In this project, funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation, these entries were whittled down to a shortlist of 10.
In July 2007, a team of 4 actors (Blue Merrick, Robert Snell, Stacey Sampson & David Smith)
were brought together with director Alex Ferris and a dramaturg Richard Hurford to put the scripts (and the writers) through
a rigorous real-world test - working closely with the young writers to develop the pieces into performance scripts.
The culmination of the project was an evening of script-in-hand performances by the company at The Crucible Studio on 17th July 2007.
"Journey to the River Sea" completes second successful run
"This extraordinary and exhilarating show is as good as Shared Experience's
adult productions at their best. This is a show of many colours that is as beautiful and shimmering as the butterflies that
haunt the river's banks."
Lyn Gardner - The Guardian Click here for full review
**** "The cast is outstandingly strong and versatile ... Dazzling ...
Packs theatrical punch."
Susan Elkin - The Stage Click here for full review
**** "Even better in its revival than in its first outing ... I love the way Rosamunde Hutt uses the multi-talented cast ... an exceptionally strong cast"
."
Susan Elkin - The Stage Click here for full review
**** Critics Choice "A fluid and dynamic theatrical experience that kids responded to
brilliantly."
Lisa Mullen - Time Out Click here for full review
"The perfect antidote to Christmas in Britain."
Observer Theatre Top 50, Christmas 2006 Click here for full article
**** "Immensely popular on it's last near perfect run ... Visually spectacular ... this dynamic creation will stay with your children and definitely whet their appetite for further jaunts to the theatre."
LondonTown.Com Click here for full review
See detail for further on the show.
"The Postman Always Rings Twice"
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**** “Marvellously acted and darkly atmospheric” - The Mail on Sunday
**** “Gripping … Bailey’s cast is uniformly strong” - The Times
“Sensationally enjoyable” - The Observer
“One of the most stylish-looking productions I’ve seen in years” - The Daily Telegraph
“[from] the same team that transposed Tennessee Williams’s Baby Doll from screen to stage and
took it from Birmingham Rep to the National — and it wouldn’t
surprise me if their latest effort made a similar journey.” - The Times
Lucy Bailey directed Andrew Rattenbury's adaptation of James M Cain's novel in this spellbinding premiere at West Yorkshire Playhouse. David played Jeremies & Warder.
The production successfully transferred to the West End with Val Kilmer in the lead role.