Before Your Very Eyes (1983)

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Michael Cashman
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Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round
Main house (Round)
Round

10 August 1983
10 August 1983
31 August 1983

Alan Ayckbourn
Francis Lynch
Edward Lipscomb
Paul Todd
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Baz Edmunds
Eric Lumsden
Jo Linfoot
Mathew Claridge
Anneke Harrison
Kate Woodward
Character
Richard
Ed
Nina
Esma
May
Doctor
Actor
Michael Ross
Graeme Eton
Ruth Mayo
Ursula Jones
Molly Sharrp
Arthur Conn

Why is this play significant?

The playwriting debut of the actor Michael Cashman who would find national fame as Colin in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and who then would become an extremely prominent MEP known for his prominence as a gay and human rights activist.

Notes

○ Before Your Very Eyes marked the writing debut of the actor Michael Cashman at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round. Michael was a prominent member of the company for several years, but later became better known as Colin Russell in the BBC's Eastenders - a character involved in the first gay kiss in a British soap opera. He went onto become an MEP and a prominent gay and human rights activist.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.