Clacton & North East Essex Arts & Literary Society

 

1st November Rohan McCullough

Rohan McCullough in
‘My Darling Clemmie’
A play by Hugh Whitemore
 'My Darling Clemmie' is the remarkable, moving and highly entertaining story of the woman who married one of the truly great figures of the 20th century: Sir Winston Churchill.

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(Tel: 01255 814500).

Rohan McCullough as Clemmie. credit Sophie Baker

Biography:

Rohan McCullough began her career in the original cast of the legendary musical Hair. She has appeared as Antigone in Oedipus at Colonnus (Manchester Royal Exchange) and in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RSC).

Her film and television appearances include Sunday Bloody Sunday, Derek Jarman’s War Requiem, and David Hare’s Strapless. She has given poetry and music recitals at the Wigmore Hall, the South Bank, and at arts festivals nationwide. She has been narrator with leading American symphony orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and The Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall.

She has achieved her most notable success with her one-woman shows. She won the Scotsman drama award for The Testament of Youth (based on Vera Brittain’s celebrated book). Her solo performance of Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond was part of the official Edinburgh Festival and was broadcast by BBC radio. Rohan McCullough’s third one-woman show, The Tale of Beatrix Potter, has been seen at theatres and festivals throughout the world.

In the last few years, she has given poetry recitals with Sir Derek Jacobi, Edward Fox and John Julius Norwich. She appeared frequently with the late John Mortimer in his poetry and prose entertainment, Mortimer’s Miscellany.

Rohan McCullough regularly performs in poetry recital programmes for Clive Conway's Celebrity Productions.  Her one woman shows - The Tale of Beatrix Potter, Testament of Youth (Vera Brittain)  and her most recent success as Winston Churchill's wife, Clementine Churchill, in My Darling Clemmie  can be booked directly though Indigo Entertainments at www.indigoentertainments.co.uk or telephone 01978 790211.

 

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