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Rossiter had met Raine when he played the lead role of Fred Midway in David Turner's play Semi-Detached, in a production directed by Tony Richardson. The play opened on 8 June 1962 at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry and ran for a week.
In David Turner’s Semi-Detached (1962-63), Rossiter appeared to define a certain bourgeois suburban archetype as Fred Midway, a basic self-perfecting everyman on the surface whose zeal to rise above his station paints a steadily repellent, crooked picture of the emerging middle class.
Semi-Detached is a play written by David Turner. It premiered at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in June 1962 with Leonard Rossiter in the lead role, the production was directed by Tony Richardson. In 1964, the BBC recorded a radio adaptation starring Rossiter, rebroadcast in 2016 in its series Repertory in Britain.
Oct 7, 1984 · Mr. Rossiter appeared on the New York stage in 1963 in the Coventry Belgrade Theater Company's production of ''Semi-Detached,'' a British satire by David Turner. Rossiter had the leading...
Oct 5, 1984 · Rossiter made dozens of stage appearances in London's West End. His London debut was in 1958 in the play 'Free As Air,' and his first Broadway appearance was in 'Semi-Detached' in 1963.
May 23, 2024 · Rossiter had met Raine when he played the lead role of Fred Midway in David Turner's play Semi-Detached, in a production directed by Tony Richardson. The play opened on 8 June 1962 at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry and ran for a week.
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Notable lead roles from this period include 'Semi-Detached' (tx. 1/5/1966), a televised version of one of Rossiter's early theatre successes, in Theatre 625 (BBC, 1964-68); the political thriller Death is a Good Living (BBC, 1966), as an assassin; the race relations drama 'Drums Along the Avon' (tx. 24/5/1967) in The Wednesday Play (BBC, 1964 ...
