entertainment exploring ideas and emotions that we hope will delight, challenge, entrance and excite
Contact
Spoken Word
Shortwood Farmhouse
Millards Hill
Batcombe
Shepton Mallet
Somerset BA4 6AE
Telephone : +44 (0)1749 850562
E-mail : harriet@spoken-word.co.uk
We are a company of professional actors who present performances of poetry and prose. We have devised a series of themed programmes for your entertainment exploring ideas and emotions that we hope will delight, challenge, entrance and excite.
HARRIET GRASBY trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art after reading Drama at Loughborough University. Her theatre credits include Macbeth, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ivanov and Trumpets and Raspberries (Northcott Theatre, Exeter); Treats (Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford); and Under Milk Wood (Jill Freud & Company and British Council Tour). Harriet has performed rehearsed readings of new writing with Stagewrite at Salisbury Playhouse and devised one-woman shows on Sylvia Plath and Shakespeare’s Queen Margaret.
ALASTAIR DANSON trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and received the BBC Carleton Hobbs award for radio. His recent stage work includes Night Swimming and Earth and Sky at the Nuffield, Southampton; King Lear at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Underbelly for the London New Play Festival, Bella Bella Donatella at Salisbury Playhouse and Anthony Minghella and Friends at the Ryde Festival. He is a regular performer in BBC radio dramas and features, and has appeared on TV in Harbour Lights and Thackeray’s Women.
TIM MEATS Trained at LAMDA. Extensive theatre credits playing in Hamlet, Private Lives, Hay Fever, The Real Thing, Passion Play, The Homecoming, Arturo Ui, Mary Stuart, Three Sisters, The Shakespeare Revue and many more. Television work in Poirot, Silent Witness, Bodyguards, Shrinks, Lovejoy, Kinsey, Eastenders, Wish Me Luck, The Old Men At The Zoo, The Governor. He has acted in many radio plays, serials and readings including The Archers as Robin Stokes.
