September 11, 2013

Sean Chapman - Northumberland

Sean Chapman has been gracing TV screens for several decades, mostly as a tough guy. He can be found in classics like The Professionals, Bergerac, The Bill, Absolutely Fabulous, Peak Practice and Casualty.  He even appeared in the TV movie K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend!

He was seen most recently in the five part drama The Case as Mark Metezler.

If you are a horror fan you'll recognize Sean as Frank Cotton from Hellraiser and Hellraiser II.

 

His stage work includes the 2006 production of David Hare's translation of Maxim Gorky's play and "Enemies", at the Almeida Theatre, 2008's A Prayer For My Daughter' at the Young Vic Theatre. He has also work several times at The National Theatre.

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Pictured here with Colin Morgan from A Prayer for My Daughter

Sean is also an author and has recently published two novels The Blood in the Moon and A Distant Prospect, available on Amazon!

You can check out his blog here.

He will be portraying Northumberland in Richard II

"Shakespeare portrays Northumberland in an extremely negative light. In Richard II, he resorts to trickery to get Richard to submit to him and continuously nags him to look over a document of the people's grievances.  Although Shakespeare portrays the earl as both deceitful and cowardly, he gives him a small amount of credit at the end of the history cycle. It may not seem fair though, to give such a small tribute to a man who appears to have fought valiantly in a last ditch effort to overthrow a king he made a mistake in putting on the throne" - http://www.shakespeareandhistory.com

"His noble kinsman: most degenerate king!
But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm;
We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,
And yet we strike not, but securely perish."