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Early Influences: Allam first became interested in theatre during his days at Christ’s Hospital School. A book in the school library called Great Acting caught his attention along with the school and house plays that were on at the time.
Jan 11, 2016 · I was starting to be politically active at 16, and certainly became so when I joined a feminist theatre company – Monstrous Regiment – after university. I’d seen quite a lot of political theatre – Belt and Braces, 7:84, Red Ladder.
- Adrian Lobb
Allam's theatre roles have ranged from the serious – Willy Brandt in Frayn's Democracy, Hitler in David Edgar's Albert Speer – to the starry – opposite Gillian Anderson in What the Night Was...
Allam will have to compete with older theatregoers' memories of the immensely popular Brandt, who had the actor's gift of controlling a crowd, even without using words. His kneeling at a...
A lover of Fred Astaire (‘there’s a bounciness, I always preferred him to Bing Crosby’), Allam has made his mark in musical theatre, in Les Mis and also City of Angels and La Cage aux Folles. ‘It’s nine years since I sang on stage, and it took a huge effort to get my voice back in shape.
After last autumn’s Seminar, Roger Allam returns to Hampstead Theatre to play John Christie in David Hare’s new play, The Moderate Soprano. In 1934 John Christie, his wife and three refugees from Nazi Germany, founded the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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Olivier Award-winning actor Roger Allam, who transfers Michael Frayn’s Democracy to the West End this week, recalls his RSC & NT highlights, proposes management delayering & shares some rude German hand gestures.
