Keith Osborn is very well known to David Tennant fans as the author of Something Written in the State of Denmark. His book about his experience as a member of the cast of the RSC 2008 production of Hamlet, he was cast as Marcellus. The book started life as a blog written to chronicle the 2008 RSC season with Greg Doran directing Midsummer Night's Dream, Loves Labours Lost and Hamlet.
Keith joined the RSC in 1985 and has been involved in over 30 productions with the company. In addition to the three plays already mentioned he has also appeared in Measure for Measure, Othello, Eastward Ho! Edward III, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Comedy of Errors. To see a complete list of his RSC CV click here.
Keith has also appeared on many popular BBC TV series including playing Sgt. Allbright several times on the BBC One series Father Brown that premiered in January of 2013.He has also appeared in Casualty, Minder, The Bill and DoctorsYou can see Keith in this clip from the RSC answering the question "Why Shakespeare?" - (Keith speaks 2nd)
He is playing Sir Stephen Scroop in Richard II in history he was the Lord Justice of Ireland and found favor
with King Henry IV, becoming Justice of Munster after 1401.
This is an excerpt from Act III, sc. ii, where Scroop warns King Richard II of
the rise of Bolingbroke:
Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd
To bear the tidings of calamity.
Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage
Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
To bear the tidings of calamity.
Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage
Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land
With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
Hamlet,
Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at:
http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf
Hamlet,
Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at:
http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf
Hamlet,
Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at:
http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf
Hamlet,
Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Love’s Labour’s Lost) - See more at:
http://bloggingshakespeare.com/books-and-blogs-with-keith-osborn#sthash.Uuf3Dxwt.dpuf
