Barrie Rutter XMAS Collection: JINGLEBELLS... CHRISTMAS CRACKERS & STOCKING FILLERS
Schedule
Thu, 18 Dec, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
8 Horton Street, HX1 1PU Halifax, United Kingdom | Halifax, EN
Rutter is the Founder and Artistic Director of Northern Broadsides. He was born in Hull andsince leaving school in 1964 his acting career has stretched from Hamburg to Helsinki. Bradford to Beijing and includes film, television and radio. But he is best described as a “theatre animal”, and has had his happiest moments on the stage, whether in Shakespeare's Globe. London. the ancient amphitheatre of Epidaurus in Greece or the
stone cellar that is the Viaduct at Dean Clough in Halifax...
His theatre work includes: Henry IV. Henry V. Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Mysteries, The Crucible, Guys and Dolls. The Oresteia, The Rivals, Animal Farm. Martine and The Trackers of Oxchkachus for the Royal National Theatre, the title role in Hobson's Choice at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre and most recently. Jarvis Huntley-Pike in A Chorus of Disapproval at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
In 2008 Rutter directed and played the title role in the premiere of Jack Lear by Ben Benison at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and directed The Tempest for THOC Cyprus
Theatre Organisation. In 2009 he directed Richard Ill in Estonia for Theatre Lanemune Tartu.
Estonia
Work for Northern Broadsides as director and actor includes: Richard III. The Merry Wives. Poetry or Bust. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Cracked Pot, The Blood of Dracula. The Passion. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Samson Agonistes, The Trackers of
Oxxchkashus. Twelfth Night, King Lear. The Mysteries 2000, Much Ado About Nothing. Alcestis, King John. Oedipus, Macbeth, Henry V. Antigone. The Merchant of Venice, Comedy of Errors, Sweet William, School for Scandal. The Wars of the Roses. The Man With Two
Gaffers, The Tempest, Lisa's Sex Strike, Othello, Medea, The Game, We are Three Sisters. Love's Labours Lost, Rutherford & Son and An August Bank Holiday Lark
Barrie Rutter was awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours 2015.
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8 Horton Street, HX1 1PU Halifax, United Kingdom, 10 Horton Street, Halifax, HX1 1, United Kingdom
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