Robert Pickavance

Robert Pickavance

Mr Bigsby, Mr Billingsby, Jimmy, Commissionaire and as cast

At the New Vic: Romeo and Juliet, Canterbury Tales, The Grand Gesture ( Northern Broadsides).

Theatre credits include: King Lear (Young Vic); Uncle Vanya (Salisbury Playhouse);  The Women of Troy (National Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe and tour); Romeo and Juliet, Educating Rita, Neville’s Island, Broken Glass, Pygmalion, Patient No 1,The White Crow, The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, 40 Years On, A View From The Bridge (York Theatre Royal); When We Dead Awaken (Vasterbottensteatern Sweden); Beckett’s A Piece of Monologue, Dr Korczak’s Example, Around The World In 80 Day, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, Europe, Road, [the fall of] The Master Builder (Leeds Playhouse); All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare’s Globe); Andrea Chénier (Opera North); Beethoven’s Fifth, Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphonies, Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony (Beyond the Score® explorations Hallé Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia); Foe (Complicte); The Empty Chair (Hornchurch).

Robert co-founded the Scottish touring company Communicado with Gerry Mulgrew and Alison Peebles in Edinburgh in 1983.