Steven Berkoff
Steven Berkoff is an English actor, author, playwright and director.
His plays and adaptations have been performed all over the world.To find out more vist www.stevenberkoff.com
01/09/2023
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Jewish east end
The Jewish east end
Steven Berkoff’s latest audio play. Whereby you will hear the voices of five of Britain’s acting legends. Speaking to us from purgatory. The cast will be Ben Whitehead as Ralph Richardson, George Telfer as John Gielgud, Glen Mcready as Richard Burton, Timothy Bentinck as Peter O’Toole, Sarah Mann as Elizabeth Taylor and Vivian Leigh and Steven Berkoff as Laurence Olivier.
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31/03/2023
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Just completing the first audio version of 'Co**se' a study of seven of our greatest actors in Purgatory. A totally unique audio experience written by me. A play like no other. Hear the trailer....
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Steven Berkoff
Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney, London. After studying drama and mime in London and Paris, he entered a series of repertory companies and in 1968 formed the London Theatre Group. His plays and adaptations have been performed in many countries and in many languages. Among the many adaptations Berkoff has created for the stage, directed and toured, are Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial, Agamemnon after Aeschylus, and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. He has directed and toured productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus also playing the title role, Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth, as well as Oscar Wilde's Salome.
Berkoff's original stage plays include East, West, Messiah: Scenes from a Crucifixion, The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, Decadence, Harry's Christmas, Massage, Acapulco and Brighton Beach Scumbags. He has performed his trilogy of solo shows, One Man, Shakespeare's Villains and Requiem for Ground Zero, in venues all over the world.
Films Steven has acted in include A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Oc*****sy, Beverly Hills Cop, Rambo, Under the Cherry Moon, Absolute Beginners and The Krays. He directed and co- starred with Joan Collins in the film version of his play Decadence.
He has published a variety of books on the theatre such as the production journals I am Hamlet, Meditations on Metamorphosis and Coriolanus in Deutschland. Berkoff's work has led him to traverse the globe, and his love for travel is apparent in his book Shopping in the Santa Monica Mall: The Journals of a Strolling Player.
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