Richard Roques
Richard Roques has written eight full length plays, 2 novels and a number of short stories and radio plays.
As a guide he has a repertoire of over forty walks all over London. Of his first play, Looks Like Freedom, Bonnie Greer wrote in Time Out:
His insights … are compassionate and often hilarious … this play, with its honesty and willingness to engage the world, is worth all the well-crafted, directed to death but essentially tiny plays currently in fashion.’
Richard won the 2006 Windsor Fringe Festival award for his short play Don’t Open the Door. The award was presented by Fay Weldon.
Theatre
Don’t Open the Door
Full production, Waterloo East Theatre 2021, 2014, 2006
Short Memory
2018
Whistleblower – The story of Edward Snowden
Full production, Waterloo East Theatre 2016, 2014
Going Short
2008
The History of London until it got burnt down
Full production, Jermyn Street Theatre 2008
What’s She Like?
Rehearsed reading, Nell of Old Drury 2002
Things Can Only Get Better
Full production, Etcetera Theatre 1999
Tupperware Party
Rehearsed reading, The Red Room 1996
My Country’s Hostage
Rehearsed reading, Tristan Bates Theatre 1995
Looks Like Freedom
Full production, Etcetera Theatre 1994
Radio
Second Soprano
2002
A short Future
1999
Do We Get To See a Ghost?
1996
Custody of the Dog
1995
Out of Bounds
1994
Novels
Sleeping with Strangers
Acting Badly
Damian Loeb Anything Else 1998, 50″ by 74″, oil/linen. Mary Boone Gallery, NY, NY.
Loeb has used a photograph of me getting arrested on the Anti-Poll Tax riot on 31 March 1990. www.damianloeb.com
Links
Thanks to St. Pauls, the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden for their generous support in supplying rehearsal space for the production. One of the scenes in the play takes place outside the church.
The Windsor Fringe — Richard won first prize in the Windsor Fringe Festival 2006. This is their site where you can see pictures of Richard receiving his prize from Fay Weldon. See also About the Author on this site.
London Open House — London’s architecture festival: each September over 600 buildings open to the public.
Highgate Choral Society — I sing in this choir. Click on the link to find out about our next concert.
Paris Walks — Peter and Oriel who run Paris Walks are great friends, and I have been on nearly all their walks. I love Paris and the walks are great.
The Museum of London — Communicating London’s history, archaeology and contemporary cultures to a wider world.
Mark Roques, storyteller — My brother’s website.
Celia Purcell Contemporary Art — Celia sells affordable art by painters and sculptors.
Vicki Ambery Smith, Jewellry — Vicki makes architectural jewellry. She gave me a pair of cufflinks for my birthday, The Royal Opera House in silver and red gold.
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