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CORNET SOLO<br />
Performer - Silas Hawkins<br />
Silas has been acting since 1986 and has around 36 stage credits,<br />
including 14 Shakespeare productions (where he has been twice cast<br />
as Prospero’s wicked brother Antonio). Other actor/voice credits<br />
include Narration for Latin Music USA (BBC4), Summerton Mill<br />
(CBeebies) and Bob the bong-smoking cyber-dog in manga animation<br />
Rogue Farm, along with audiobooks including William Morrris’s<br />
The Well of the World’s End. Silas is the son of Peter Hawkins<br />
(of Dalek, Flowerpot Men and Captain Pugwash fame).<br />
Writer and Director - Benjamin Francis<br />
Ben’s Ben’s short plays include Snaresbrook (The Bread and Roses and Ophelia Dalston), Mog<br />
Pritchard’s Ton-Up (Theatre 503), Belisarus 5 (Horse & Stables), Everything Happens at the Starlight<br />
Lounge (The Vaults). He has written book and lyrics for a musical version of They Shoot Horses<br />
Don’t They? (Goldsmiths University) and has written and directed several times for radio, including<br />
Luggage, Anonymous, Flowering Cactus, Christmas With The Gentlemen In Grey, Fly Air Icarus and a<br />
dramatisation of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde. For several years he wrote for BBC Radio 2’s comedy show<br />
The News Huddlines.<br />
His essay on Into The Woods appeared in the Handbook of Stephen Sondheim published by Oxford<br />
University Press, and this year one will also appear in the Handbook of the English Musical.
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