LIST OF PERFORMANCES AND PRODUCTIONS

Productions directed by Terence Knapp are indicated by an asterisk (*).

World Premieres are indicated by a double asterisk (**).

Co-direction and/or consultancy indicated by a triple asterisk (***).

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Date

Character

Production

Venue

1942

Br'er Rabbit

Br'er Fox and the Tarbaby

County Durham Parochial School

1946

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth (Shakespeare)

Parmiters Grammar School, Bethnal Green

1948-49

Messenger

Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)

Preparatory Academy to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

 

Lucio

Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)

 

 

Idiot/Bagpiper

Cornish Folk Play (Anonymous)

 

 

Eric

An Inspector Calls (Priestley)

 

 

Uncle Chris

I Remember Mama (Van Druten)

 

 

Prince Hal

Henry IV Part II (Shakespeare)

 

 

Koko

The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)

 

 

Sorcerer

Night on Bare Mountain (Moussorgsky)

 

1949/50

Danny

Night Must Fall (E. Williams)

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

 

Lysander

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)

 

 

Wicked Fairy

Love of Four Colonels (Ustinov)

 

1951

The Earl

While the Sun Shines (Rattigan)

Royal Air Force, Wattisham, England

 

Dr. Chasuble

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)

 

1952-53

Eric

An Inspector Calls (Priestley)

Royal Air Force, Oldenburg

 

Hamlet

Hamlet (Shakespeare)  

Radio Bremen-Nord West Deutches  Rundfunk

 

Approximately one year of weekly 30 minute programs for Schools in English

1953-54

Backbite

School for Scandal (Sheridan)

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

 

Lumpkin

She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)

 

 

Sweeney Todd

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Anonymous)  (Comic Mime Prize)

 

 

Mangan

Heartbreak House (Shaw)

 

 

1954-55

Young Man

Late Love (Casey)

Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool, England

 

Reporter

Escapade (McDougal)

 

 

Sergeant

Love in Albania (Linklater)

 

 

Feste

Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)

 

 

Wizard

Beauty and the Beast (Grey)

 

 

Apprentice

House of Benedicite (Larwood)

 

 

Agent

Present Laughter (Coward)

 

 

Superintendent

The Wooden Dish (Morris)

 

 

Auld Fella

Home Is The Hero (Macken)

 

 

Hans

Spring Quartet (Schubert/Settle/Stoker)

 

1955-56

Horatio

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

 

 

Peter Flynn

The Plough and the Stars (O'Casey)

 

 

Mexican Waiter

Dream Girl. (Rice)

 

 

Hortensio

The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)

 

 

Fag

The Rivals (Sheridan)

 

 

Thug Guard

The Queen and the Rebels (Betti)

 

 

Hans Andersen

The Snow Queen (Grey)

 

 

Leon

Theme and Variations (Tchaikovsky/Settle/Stoker)

 

1956-57

Nicolo

School for Wives (Moliere)

 

 

Cabinet Minister

The Apple Cart (Coward)

 

 

Parris

The Crucible (Miller)

 

 

Secretary

The Public Prosecutor (Hochwalder)

 

 

Gentleman Caller

The Glass Menagerie (T. Williams)

 

 

Montano

Othello (Shakespeare)

 

 

The Reverend

The Honourable Crichton (Barrie)

 

 

Chef d'Atelier

Marie Laurencian

 

 

Tweedledee/Unicorn

Alice Through The Looking Glass (Carroll)

 

 

Admiral

The Flashing Stream (Morgan)

 

 

Irish Steward

Esperanza (St. John Ervine)

 

1957-58

Teenager

The Girls of Summer (Nash)

 

 

Cliff

Look Back in Anger (Osborne)

 

 

Tegeus

A Phoenix Too Frequent (Fry)

 

 

Luke

Lady Audley's Secret (Hazelwood)

 

 

Hughie

Hand in Glove (Savory)

 

 

Lorenzo

The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)

 

 

Brisk

The Double Dealer (Congreve)

 

 

Danny

The Londonderry Heir (Chopin/Settle/Stoker)

 

 

Mercury

Amphitryon 38 (Giraudoux)

 

1959

Leading Juvenile

Call It Love (Tanitch)

Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, Wimbledon Theatre and Wyndhams Theatre

 

Prodigal Son

 

Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh Festival

 

Guildenstern/ Gravedigger

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

Birmingham Repertory

 

Solo Singer

Catholic Stage Guild Gala

Coliseum Theatre

1962

Valentine

The Chances (Fletcher)

Inaugural Company of the Chichester Festival Theatre

 

Haemopliil

The Broken Heart (Ford)

 

 

Cover for Sebreyakov

UncleVanya (Chekov)

 

1963

Ross

Macbeth (Shakespeare)

Nottingham Playhouse Tour of West Africa

 

Feste

Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)

 

 

Nicholas

Arms and the Man (Shaw)

 

 

Bluebeard

St.Joan (Shaw)

Chichester Playhouse

 

Customer

The Workhouse Donkey (Arden)

 

 

Cover for Sebreyakov -

Uncle Vanya (Chekov)

 

 

Bluebeard

St. Joan (Shaw)

Edinburgh Festival, Assembly Hall

1963-65

Osric

Hamlet (Shakespeare)   

Inaugural Company of the National Theatre at the Old Vic

 

Albert

Hobson's Choice (Brickhouse)

 

 

Bluebeard

St. Joan (Shaw)

 

 

Watchman

The Dutch Courtesan (Marston)

 

 

Guard

The Crucible (Miller)

 

 

Inca Ensemble

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Shaffer)

 

 

Duke's Officer

Othello (Shakespeare)

 

 

Jeremy

Love for Love (Congreve)

 

 

Townsman/and Cover for the Architect.

The Master-Builder (Ibsen)

 

 

1966

Henry VIII

A Man for All Seasons (Bolt)

Nottingham Playhouse Tour of Southeast Asia

 

LeBeau/and Williams

As You Like It (Shakespeare)

 

 

Recitalist

Poetry Program

 

 

1966-67

Octavius Caesar

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)

Nottingham Playhouse Company

 

Octavius Caesar

Caesar and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)

 

 

Lumpkin

She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)

 

 

Chief Constable

The Workhouse Donkey (Arden)

 

 

LaVatch

All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)

 

 

Oberon

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)

 

 

Hussar

Dandy Dick (Pinero)

 

 

Englishman

The Little Mrs. Foster (Livings)

 

 

H.G. Wells

Boots With Strawberry Jam (Dankworth and Green)

 

 

Supporting Cast

Under Milk Wood (Thomas) (With Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, in aid of the Aberfan Disaster Fund)

 

 

Foyer Recitalist

Comic verse, lyrics by Coward T. S. Eliot, Chaucer, Shakespearean sonnets, etc.

 

 

Bluntchli

Arms And The Man (Shaw)

Flora Robson Theatre Newcastle-upon-Tyne

 

Nick

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf  (Albee)

 

 

Lumpkin

She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)

 

 

Recitalist

 

Lord Mayor of Newcastle's Gala

 

Recitalist

Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

 

1968

Mr. Buff

The Impresario (W. A. Mozart)

Theatre Royal, Bath

 

Jezebel/Prophet

Naboth's Vineyard (Goehr)

City of London Festival

 

Choreographer

 

Bicentennial Celebration

1969

 

Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) *

Gekidan Kumo

 

Johnny

Misalliance (Shaw)

Theatre Royal, Bath

 

Dauphin/ Burgundy

Henry V (Shakespeare)

 

 

Sparkish

The Country Wife- (Wycherley)

 

 

Leader

The Hollow Crown (Barton)

 

 

Black Mortimer

Poison Flowers **

Ipswich Theatre

 

Praed

Mrs. Warrens Profession (Shaw)

 

 

Secretary

The Worker Priest (Stewart)

Duke of York's Theatre

 

Leading Man

Sailor Beware (Kind/Carey)

Grand Theatre, Croyden

 

Leading Man

Any Other Business

 

1970

Lead performer

The Hallelujah Boy (Bruce Stewart)

Duchess Theatre

 

Solo performer/ choreographer

Shadow Play Two (Goehr/Cavander) **

City of London Festival Commission

 

Father Christmas

Down by the Greenwood Side (Burtwhistle)

Music Theatre Ensemble

 

Ensemble

Noel Coward's 70th Birthday

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

 

Dauphin/ Burgundy

Henry V (Shakespeare)

Theatre Royal Richmond

 

 

Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) *

Kennedy Theatre

1971

 

Macbeth (Shakespeare) * (With guest performer, Timothy Dalton)

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

Hay Fever (Coward) *

 

 

Von Rothbart

Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) (With Toni Landers and Bruce Marks)

 

 

(Co-author)

Famous are the Flowers * (J. Dominis Holt)

 

 

 

The Night Thoreau Spent in Gaol * (Lawrence and Lee)

 

 

 

The Trojan Women (Euripides) *

 

1972

 

The Chalk Garden (Bagnold) *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

Scarganelle & Dido and Aeneas (Moliere/Purcell) *

Honolulu Players Ensemble

 

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare) *

Kennedy Theatre

 

Performer

Beyond the Fringe (Alan Bennett, et al)

US Army Special Services

1973

Performer

Beyond the Fringe(Alan Bennett, et al)

JB's, Waikiki

 

Modern Mephisto

Faust (Gounod,) *

Hawaii Opera Theatre

 

Bishop Maigret

Damien (Aldyth Morris) *

Kumu Kabua Kennedy Lab Theatre

 

Brother Dominic

Joan at the Stake (Honegger)

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

 

Dr. Coppelius

Coppelia (Delibes)

Kennedy Theatre

 

Performer/ narrator

Survivor from Warsaw (Schoenberg)

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

1974

Ritualist/actor

Vision ofVasavadatta (Sanskrit Epic)

Kennedy Theatre

 

Performer/ narrator

Othello (Verdi)

Honolulu Opera Theatre

 

Master of Ceremonies

Metaphysical Circus * (Knapp)

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

Twelfth Night  *  (Shakespeare)

Gekidan Kumo Tokyo

 

 

 

 

Twelf' Nite or Wateva (Benton) **

Lab Theatre & Kennedy Leeward College

 

 

1975

Abbot Seigen

The Scarlet Princess of Edo (Namboku IV, Brandon)

Neighbor Island & California Tour

 

 

 

Performer

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, Mendelssohn) *

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

 

 

 

Adaptor

The Mystery and The Passion  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Abbot Seigen

Scarlet Princess of Ed  * (Namboku IV, Brandon)

Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C

 

 

 

 

The Medium (Menotti)  *

Opera Players of Hawaii

 

 

 

 

Hippolytus  (Euripides)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1976

 

The Glass Menagerie (Williams)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

Many Moons  (Thurber/Chorpenning)  ***

Subaru Co., Tokyo

 

 

 

 

Pericles  (Shakespeare)  ****

Gekidan En

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Aldyth Morris)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris) *

Kalaupapa Settlement, Molokai

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris) *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris) *

Gala Performance, Hono lulu Hale (City Hall)

 

 

 

 

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1977

 

Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)  *

Gekidan En

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Sophia University, Tokyo

 

 

 

 

Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

Trial of Lili'u'okalani  ***

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris) (Lyceum Program)  *

Kauai, Maui, Hawaii

 

 

1978

Henry Higgins

Pygmalion  (Shaw)

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Capt. Cook RN

As You Like It (Shakespeare)  *

 

 

 

 

Capt. Cook RN

Captain Cook (Morris)

Kauai Museum Benefit

 

 

 

 

Miss Julie (Strindberg)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Garry

Present Laughter (Coward)

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

1979

 

The Man of Mode  (Wycherley)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Henry II

The Lion in Winter (Goldman)

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

 

Karasawagi—Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare) 

Gekidan En

 

 

 

 

The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Jupiter

Amphitryon 38 (Behrman) *

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

1980

 

Noh Medea (Sorgenfrei)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

George

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Shaffer)  *

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

 

Famous Are The Flowers (John Dominis Holt) *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Manfred

Manfred  (Schumann/Byron)

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

 

 

 

 

Kennedy's Children *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

Puu Pun Kane Oe  (Tanner/Hess)  **

Hawaii Chamber Orchestra

 

 

1981

Fagin

Oliver (Bart)

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

The Glass Menagerie (Williams)  *

Gekidan En

 

 

 

 

The Lion in Winter (Goldman)  *

Gekidan En

 

 

 

Performer

The Gospel of Mark

Sophia University, Tokyo

 

 

 

 

The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

King Arthur

Camelot (Lerner & Loewe)

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

1982

Rolfe

Hadrian VII (Peter Luke)

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

Lear

Cordelia Victorious A Noh cycle (Sorgenfrei) ***

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Newman Center UHM Inauguration

 

 

1983

 

The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

I Never Sang for My Father (Anderson)  *

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

Noh Medea (Sorgenfrei) *

Vassar College and US Tour

 

 

 

 

Blithe Spirit (Coward)   *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)   *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1984

Archie Rice

The Entertainer (Osborne)  ***

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

The Tempest (Shakespeare) *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe)  *

Toho Theatre, Tokyo

 

 

 

 

Hay Fever (Coward)  *

Gekidan En

 

 

1985

 

'Night Mother (Norman) *

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

Pal Joey (Rodgers & Hart)

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

St. Joan (Shaw) ***

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

 

Pizarro—The Royal Hunt of the Sun (Shaffer)  *

Parco Theatre, Tokyo

 

 

 

 

The Dresser (Ronald Harwood)  ***

Windward Theatre Guild

 

 

 

 

Hamlet (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Narrrator

King David  (Honegger)

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

 

 

 

Coward

Noel and Gertie (Moreley)  *  (United States premiere)

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

1986

Salieri

Amadeus *  (Shaffer)

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

 

The Glass Menagerie (Williams)

Gekidan En

 

 

1987

Higgins

My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewej  ***

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

Othello (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream  (Shakespeare)  *

PT

 

 

 

 

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (Bishop)  *

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

1988

 

The Music Man (Wilson)   *

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream  *

Parco Theatre, Tokyo

 

 

 

Harpagon

The Miser (Moliere)

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

The Merry Widow (Lehar)  ***

Hawaii Opera Theatre

 

 

 

 

"Prophylactic Players"  (Knapp)  *

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

 

1989

The Chairman

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Holmes)

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

Puck/Oberon

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn/Shakespeare)

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

 

Damien (Excerpts)  *

Bishop Museum, Honolulu, State of Hawaii

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Centenniel Celebrations

 

 

 

 

The Tempest (Shakespeare)  *

Playhouse, Sharon, Connecticut

 

 

 

 

The Tempest (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Historiche Damiaanstoer,

Tremeloo, Belgium, (Hawaii State Delegation)

 

 

1990

Ballroom MC

Stepping Out

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

 

Pehea No Ho'I Na Wahine - Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart)  *

Hawaii Opera Theatre

 

 

 

 

Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) *

Manoa Valley Theatre

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Kauai.Stouffer Resort

 

 

 

 

Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1991

Gallimard

M Butterfly (D. Hwang)  *

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

 

Enrico Quatro  (Pirandello)  *

Parco Theatre, Tokyo

 

 

 

Julia

Fallen Angels  (Coward)

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

1992

Performer

The Hollow Crown  (Barton)  With Prunella Scales and Toby Robertson

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

Lettice and Lovage  (Shaffer)***

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

Christopher

Columbus for Adults  (August Becker)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Parco Theatre, Tokyo

 

 

1993

Prosecutor

Prophecy and Honor  (Moore)

Diamond Head Community Theatre

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris) *

Interfaith Ministry Pacific Rim

 

 

 

 

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1994

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Hawaii Ecumenical Conference

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Our Lady of Peace Cathedral

 

 

 

 

Oscar—The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name (Albery)

Parco Theatre, Tokyo

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Hilo, Hawaii

 

 

 

Albert Einstein

Einstein Talks Like a Regular Guy  (Dowd)

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1995

Mark Twain

Aguinaldo  (Hazzard)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

 

 

Albert Einstein

Einstein Talks Like a Regular Guy (Dowd)

KHT

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Damien H.S.

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Parco Theatre, Tokyo

 

 

1996

Albert Einstein

Einstein Talks Like a Regular Guy (Dowd)

U. of Capetown and the Pretoria.Teknikon, South Africa.

 

 

 

 

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)*

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

Performer

Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)

Honolulu Symphony Orchestra

 

 

1997

Co-star

The Buck Stops Where  (Moore)

Hawaii Theatre, Honolulu

 

 

 

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *  Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts State Literature Prize Honolulu

 

 

 

 

Performer

The Buck Stops Where  (Moore)

KHET

 

 

1998

Sir Joseph Porter

HMS Pinafore (Gilbert & Sullivan)

Windward Community College

 

 

1999

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

 

 

Father Damien (Spinetti and Mahler, an opera in progress) ***

 

 

 

2000

Damien

Damien (Morris)  *

Ka'ui Concert Society

 

 

 

Einstein

Einstein Inside Out  (Dowd)

Hawaii College of Arts & Science, UHM

 

 

2001

 

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)  *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

2005

 

Twelf' Nite or Wateva (Benton) *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1971/2000

Performcr

Shakespeare Birthday Shows *

Kennedy Theatre

 

 

1971/2000

Lecturer

Opera Productions

Friends of Hawaii Opera Theatre

 

 

1971/2000

Lecturer/ Performer

Various Topics and Playreadings

Honolulu Women's Drama Circle

 

 

1993/2000

Performer Burns Night

 

Caledonian Society of Hawaii