CAST

GERARD HORAN

Henry Wakefield
Richard Briers

Vernon Spatch
Mark Hadfield

Tom Newman
Nicholas Farrell

Carnforth Greville
Gerard Horan

Terry Du Bois
John Sessions

Fadge
Celia Imrie

Molly
Hetta Charnley

Nina
Julia Sawalha

Margaretta D'Arcy
Joan Collins

Nancy Crawford
Jennifer Saunders

Mortimer
Robert Hines

Tim
James D. White

Mrs. Branch
Ann Davies

Nina's Father
Edward Dewesbury

"I've come across a lot of Carnforth Grevilles in the acting profession" says Gerard Horan. "He just wants to potter along and be part of the family - for him the theatre company replaces the family. He's both scared of acting and in love with it but has never really fulfilled any of his promise."

Horan trained at RADA where he first met Kenneth Branagh in 1981 but the two did not work together professionally until 1987 when Horan joined the Renaissance Theatre Company for the production of Branagh's own play "Public Enemy." Since then Horan has worked regularly with Branagh. He played in "Look Back in Anger," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "King Lear" and "Coriolanus" - all for Renaissance - and also appeared in Branagh's films "Much Ado About Nothing" - as Borachio - and "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" - as Claude.

He recently starred as Johan Beethoven, the composer's brother, in Bernard Rose's "Immortal Beloved" and has worked with Rose before in "Chicago Joe and the Show Girl." His first films were for Stephen Frears, "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Sammie and Rosie Get Laid" and for Stephen Poliak off in "Hidden City."

Television credits are numerous and include roles in such popular series as "London's Burning," "The Bill," "Boon," "Poirot," "Casualty" and "Lovejoy" as well as the ground-breaking dramas "The Singing Detective" and "Shoot to Kill."

Before joining the Renaissance Theatre Company, Horan was a regular at the Royal Court in plays such as Danny Boyle's productions of "Up To the Sun," "Saved" and "The Pope's Wedding" and Lindsay Posner's "Built on Sand" and "Downfall."