Projects:
Very hard Times - Pieter Plunker Flying Tailor
ANGUS BARR
Writer - Director - Performer - Musician
Angus trained in acting at the Poor School in 1990-92 after taking short courses in mime & mask with John Mowat and Ronnie Wilson, and at L’Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique (Paris). He went on to co-found Ridiculusmus theatre company with whom he adapted and performed in: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien, The Overcoat & the Nose by Nikolai Gogol, and The Exhibitionists.
In 1997 he left the company to make four short films: The Battle Of Trafalgar Square, Rosie For Rosie's Sake, The Man Who Woke Up, and the award-winning Like a Sieve.
He returned to the stage with an adaptation of his ecological satire, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Godard! and took it to the Pleasance, Edinburgh, where it returned in 2006 as a Christ’s Hospital school production, directed by Linda Marlowe.
In 2005 he set up Publick Transport theatre company, whose touring productions include 20,000 Leagues Under the Office, The Department of Smelling Pistakes, Very Hard Times and Discombobulated.
Since 2006 he has worked with Bristol-based Gonzo Moose theatre company, on an improvised show, Disposable Theatre, and two touring comedies: You Don’t Need to Know That and Is That a Bolt In Your Neck?
In 2008 he wrote, directed and arranged Wink the Other Eye, a show about music hall that played at Wilton’s Music Hall in London’s East End. The following year he performed in Toby Hulse’s interactive promenade production of The Lost World at Bristol Old Vic.
Street theatre work includes Mudlarks, Battle For The Winds (Desperate Men), and Car Boot Stall (Dot Comedy).
Workshop experience includes: Philippe Gaulier, Aitor Basauri, Phelim McDermott, David Glass, Lee Simpson, John Wright, Paul Hunter, David Sant, Paola Cavallin (Commedia dell'Arte), Bim Mason, Vladimir Granov (biomechanics and stunt-fighting) and Leo Bassi.
Film acting experience includes: ‘Dismantling the Bubble’ (short - Gauntlett & Son), ‘Bent Penny’ (short - directed by Darrel Butlin) and ‘Claw’ (short - Small Storytellers).
Angus also writes and plays comic songs on the ukulele-banjo.
In 1997 he left the company to make four short films: The Battle Of Trafalgar Square, Rosie For Rosie's Sake, The Man Who Woke Up, and the award-winning Like a Sieve.
He returned to the stage with an adaptation of his ecological satire, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Godard! and took it to the Pleasance, Edinburgh, where it returned in 2006 as a Christ’s Hospital school production, directed by Linda Marlowe.
In 2005 he set up Publick Transport theatre company, whose touring productions include 20,000 Leagues Under the Office, The Department of Smelling Pistakes, Very Hard Times and Discombobulated.
Since 2006 he has worked with Bristol-based Gonzo Moose theatre company, on an improvised show, Disposable Theatre, and two touring comedies: You Don’t Need to Know That and Is That a Bolt In Your Neck?
In 2008 he wrote, directed and arranged Wink the Other Eye, a show about music hall that played at Wilton’s Music Hall in London’s East End. The following year he performed in Toby Hulse’s interactive promenade production of The Lost World at Bristol Old Vic.
Street theatre work includes Mudlarks, Battle For The Winds (Desperate Men), and Car Boot Stall (Dot Comedy).
Workshop experience includes: Philippe Gaulier, Aitor Basauri, Phelim McDermott, David Glass, Lee Simpson, John Wright, Paul Hunter, David Sant, Paola Cavallin (Commedia dell'Arte), Bim Mason, Vladimir Granov (biomechanics and stunt-fighting) and Leo Bassi.
Film acting experience includes: ‘Dismantling the Bubble’ (short - Gauntlett & Son), ‘Bent Penny’ (short - directed by Darrel Butlin) and ‘Claw’ (short - Small Storytellers).
Angus also writes and plays comic songs on the ukulele-banjo.