DONKEYS’ YEARS
Michael Frayn’s sparkling comedy
Keith Myers
The Rev. R.D. Sainsbury, MA
Since graduating Keith has played a wide range of roles from Pantomime Dame to Shakespearean villain. He has recently finished a tour of the UK playing Sir George Crofts in Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession and last summer he played Charles Condomine in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit and Leon in Game Plan by Alan Aykbourn at the Theatre Royal, Margate. Before that he was in a season of plays opposite Eastenders’ star Leslie Grantham at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe. His roles were: Don Weston in John Godber’s Gym and Tonic, Eric in The Opposite Sex by David Tristram and Alex in Brian Clemen’s thriller Inside Job. Through 2005 and most of 2006 he was touring the UK as Dr John Weeden in Jeffrey Archer’s Beyond Reasonable Doubt with Leslie Grantham and Simon Ward. Other favourite leading roles include: Edgar Chambers in a tour of the comedy whodunit Anybody For Murder; Harry Roat in Wait Until Dark and Captain Lesgate in the classic thriller Dial M For Murder both opposite Cheryl Baker and Frazer Hines; Harold in Murder by Misadventure opposite Neighbours’ star Stefan Dennis; and Arthur Christie in Who Killed ‘Agatha’ Christie? When not being horribly assassinated or trying to bump off someone else he has found time to play characters as diverse as: Angelo in Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, bra salesman Mr Shanks in Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett, the Widow Twanky in Aladdin, Dennis in the cricketing comedy Outside Edge, Levi in Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Reverend Humphries in the wartime farce See How They Run.
His TV appearances include roles in various shows including Eastenders and The Chuckle Brothers.
This is his first visit to beautiful Vienna and hopefully it won’t be his last..