2020
Prospero in The Tempest at the Jermyn Theatre, London and Theatre Royal Bath
2018
Isak Jacobi/Death in Stephen Beresford’s adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander at The Old Vic, London
2017
Dogsborough in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Donmar Warehouse.
2016
Title role in Shakespeare’s King Lear directed by Max Webster on a UK tour
2015
Antigonus in The Winter’s Tale for the Kenneth Branagh Theatre season at the Garrick Theatre.
Squire Hardcastle in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer at the Theatre Royal Bath.
2014
Blunt in Alan Bennett’s Single Spies at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
Title role in Shakespeare’s King Lear for the Theatre for a New Audience in New York.
2013
Edgar in August Strindberg’s Dances of Death at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill from 30th July - 6th July. John of Gaunt in Richard II at the RST, Stratford upon Avon 19th October - 16th November 2013, and then the Barbican Theatre, London, 7th December to the 25th January 2014.
2012
Antony in Antony and Cleopatra at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
2011
Love is My Sin was performed at The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames.
Dr Fabio in The Syndicate by Eduardo de Filippo in a new translation by Mike Poulton. Opened at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester followed by a tour.
Judgement Day at The Print Room
2010
“I take your hand in mine…”, Wadham College
Love is My Sin transferred for a season at the Duke on 42nd Street in New York.
Harvard Solness in the Minerva production of Ibsen’s The Master Builder.
Heavenly Ivy by Ronald Harwood at the Ivy Restaurant.
2009
Michael returned to the Minerva Theatre in Chichester to reprise the roles of Richard Strauss and Wilhelm Furtwängler and both plays subsequently transferred to the Duchess Theatre in London for a limited season.
Love is my Sin with Natasha Parry and directed by Peter Brook, this toured European Festivals and The Ringling Arts Festival in Sarasota, Florida.
2008
Sweet William at various venues
Richard Strauss in Collaboration by Ronald Harwood at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Wilhelm Furtwängler in Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester
2007
The Bargain by Ian Curteis. National tour
Charles Dickens in Little Nell. Part of the Peter Hall season at the Theatre Royal, Bath
Sweet William at various venues
2006
Sir Sydney Cockerell in Hugh Whitemore’s play The Best of Friends. Opened at Hampstead Theatre and then tour.
2005
Recorded The Chorus in the Northwest Classical Theatre Company’s production of Romeo and Juliet
Nathan the Wise, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (translated by Edward Kemp), at the Hampstead Theatre
Colder Than Here, a new play by Laura Wade at the Soho Theatre, London
The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, by David Greig at the Donmar Theatre, London
2004
When the Night Begins, the world premiere of Hanif Kureishi’s latest play at the Hampstead Theatre
Venus and Adonis (Narration), Little Angel Theatre & the RSC Other Place.
2003
The King in Alan Bennett’s ‘The Madness of George III’, a joint production between The West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Birmingham Rep.
Dorn in the Peter Stein production of ‘The Seagull’ at the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh Festival
Anton Chekhov at the Cottesloe and tour with the ETT, and also a one-off performance at the Winchester Festival in July.
Title role in Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman with the English Touring Theatre.
2002
Walter Burns in The Front Page at Chichester Festival Theatre
Anton Chekhov at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester
2001
Dr. Prentice in Joe Orton’s in a tour of What the Butler Saw
John in David Mamet’s The Shawl at the Sheffield Crucible
2000
Title role in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens for the RSC at the Barbican Theatre
Nandor in Ferrenc Molnar’s The Guardsman at the Albery Theatre after a short tour
1999
Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at the Gielgud Theatre
Title role in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens for the RSC at Stratford and Newcastle upon Tyne
1998
The following were all for the Peter Hall Company season at the Piccadilly Theatre:
Alceste in Moliere’s The Misanthrope
Peter Shirley in Shaw’s Major Barbara
Domenico Sorriano in Eduardo de Filippo’s Filumena
1997
The following three plays were all for the Peter Hall Company season at the Old Vic:
Henry Trebell in Granville Barker’s Waste
Trigorin in Chekhov’s The Seagull
Sir John Brute in Vanbrugh’s The Provok’d Wife
Anton Chekhov at the Old Vic
1996
Archie Rice in John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Watermill Newbury, Everyman Cheltenham and Hampstead Theatre Club
1995
Major Steve Arnold in Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides at Minerva Theatre Chichester and Criterion Theatre London
1994
Deely in Old Times and Nicolas in One For The Road in the Pinter Season at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
The Ghost and Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet for the Peter Hall Company on tour and at the Gielgud Theatre in London
1993
Edward Damson in Gift of the Gorgon at Wyndhams Theatre
1992
Title role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth for the ESC tour
Edward Damson in Peter Shaffer’s The Gift of the Gorgon for the RSC at The Pit and Wyndhams Theatre
1991
The Winter’s Tale and Coriolanus continued touring
1990
Vershinin in Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
Anton Chekhov at the Gate Theatre Dublin
Leontes in The Winter’s Tale and title role in Coriolanus both for the English Shakespeare Company in an international tour and a season at the Aldwych Theatre
1989
Saw the conclusion of The Wars of the Roses tour
Bill in Stephen Poliakoff’s Playing With Trains for the RSC at The Pit
1988
Continuation of the ESC national and international tour of The Wars of the Roses
1987
This year saw the beginning of a two-year international tour of The Wars of the Roses for the ESC. In addition to the plays in the Henry Trilogy, Richard II, Henry VI and Richard III were now added. Michael played, amongst other roles, Richard II, Jack Cade and Buckingham.
1986
Saw the formation of the English Shakespeare Company with Michael Bogdanov. The next few years saw the touring both internationally and domestically the Henry Trilogy that comprised of Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V, in which Michael played Hal/Henry V.
1985
Anton Chekhov Cheltenham Festival
1984
Strider in Strider, the Story of a Horse by Mark Rozovsky from a story by Tolstoy for the National Theatre at the Cottesloe
Jaffier in Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserv’d for the NT at the Lyttelton
Anton Chekhov at the Cottesloe and a national tour
Henry in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing at the Strand Theatre
1983
Raskolnikov in an adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
1981
The Shadow of A Gunman and Hamlet for the RSC at Newcastle upon Tyne and London
Jack Beaty in Howard Brenton’s Thirteenth Night for the RSC at The Warehouse
1980
Donal Davoren in O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman for the RSC at The Other Place
Title role in Hamlet for the RSC at the RST in Stratford upon Avon
1979
The 1978 Stratford plays transferred to Newcastle upon Tyne for a short season and then to London
Shervinsky in Bulgakov’s The White Guard for the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre
1978
Mirabell in Congreve’s The Way of the World for the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre
The Duke in Measure for Measure and Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost for the RSC at Stratford
The title role in Hippolytus at The Other Place
1977
The 1976 Stratford plays transferred to Newcastle and then to London
Diary of a Madman, a one-man show in Newcastle
1976
Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Time In The Winter’s Tale, Hector in Troilus and Cressida, Major Rolfe in Destiny and Edgar in King Lear for the RSC at Stratford. Also shared the role of Time in The Winter’s Tale.
1975
Bluntcshli in Arms and the Man, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Frankfurt
1974
Angelo in Measure for Measure, Ferdinand in The Tempest and Johnnie Hobnails in Afore Night Come for the RSC at Stratford
1973
Cain in the Prospect Theatre Company’s tour of Portrait of a Planet
Crawshaw in Savages by Christopher Hampton at the Royal Court and Comedy Theatres
1972
Pretty Boy at the Royal Court
Chicago by Sam Shepard at the King’s Head
1971
Jack in Captain Jack’s Revenge at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
Andrei in Three Sisters and Ferdinand Gadd in Trewlawney of the Wells at the Arts Theatre Cambridge and subsequent tour
1970
Leonidik in The Promise at the Playhouse, Sheffield
1969
Laertes in Hamlet at the Round House, London and Lunt-Fountaine Theatre New York
1967
Trapp in The Judge at the Cambridge Theatre and subsequent tour
Gerald Arbuthnot in Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance at the Vaudeville Theatre
1966
Bimbo in The Ballad of the False Barman at the Hampstead Theatre Club
1965
RSC: The Merchant of Venice; Mathias in The Jew of Malta; Fortinbras in Hamlet; Titus in Timon of Athens; and Dumaine in Love's Labour's Lost (also understudying and performing Berowne).
1964
Joined the RSC and undertook small parts in Wars of the Roses cycle (Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III)
1962
Malcolm in the Marlowe Society’s production of Macbeth
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