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Fred Partridge

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Theatrical Experience/Training:
Fred Partridge played ‘David Copperfield’ before Freddie Bartholomew did! His ‘blood-bolter’d Banquo’ is said to have given a well-known theatre director nightmares - the director was six years old at the time! He played the role of ‘Shu Fu’ in the first British production of Brecht’s ‘Good Woman old Setzuan’, and an actress friend of the author (the original Polly in Die Dreigroschenoper), said that was exactly how Brecht would have wanted the part played! Actor and sometimes Director at Progress Theatre, Reading, from 1949 to 1963, and theatre manager there from 1952, he also gained experience of every type of back-stage and front-of-house job, apart from prompting and the sewing of costumes. He also made his debut as a writer. His performed and/or published writing includes translations of foreign plays, plays and adaptations for radio, and original work for the theatre, including numbers for Intimate Revues. A member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain or its precursors since 1959, he was Chairman of the Associates Branch in 1968 and became a Full member in the same year. Currently adapting a musical, written in collaboration with Anthony Smith, as an animated film.

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