Tag: Ian McDiarmid

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September 13, 2016 / / 0 Comments

ian-mcdiarmid-pic-n-cargill-1Everyone’s favourite villainous Emperor Palpatine actor, Ian McDiarmid is back to his roots in a new six part audio drama.

According to the Aberdeen Journal:

The Scottish born actor will star in, Akiha Den Den, the work of Peterhead-born producer and writer, Neil Cargill, and the series features a full cast, original music score, and has gained the backing of Aberdeen Performing Arts and Creative Scotland.

The episodes will be released fortnightly through a dedicated Akiha website, via iTunes; SoundCloud; Stitcher and TuneIn, with others to be added. So have a listen when it releases!

Many a True Word Hath Been Spoken in Radio

March 19, 2016 / / 0 Comments
Ian McDiarmid

Ian McDiarmid

A star-studded cast will be performing in BBC‘s latest release of Shakespeare‘s classic tragedy King Lear.

The play about the elderly King and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, is to be broadcast on Radio 3, May 8th and stars Ian McDiarmid famous for his role as Palpatine in Star Wars in the lead role.

No stranger to Lear, McDiarmid has played the King in 2005 from the Edward Bond’s 1971 rewrite of the original work.

An all Scottish casting will include Bill Paterson will play Gloucester and Paul Higgins the role of Edmund, while Brian Vernel will play The Fool and Michael Nardone the role of Kent. The daughters will include Frances Grey, from Edinburgh, as Regan, Joanna Vanderham, from Scone, Cordelia and Madeleine Worrall, from Edinburgh, will play Goneril.

Details of the upcoming performance can be found in this article of Herald Scotland.

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