David Horne

Mr Gibbs / Mr Witherspoon

David was educated in Edinburgh, trained at Birmingham, and has appeared in countless theatre productions, playing everything from Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet to Poirot in Alibi. Favourite roles include Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond, Stanley in Run For Your Wife, Teddy in The Ghost Train and Joe Gargery in Dickens’s Great Expectations. He played Robert in the world repertory premiere of Don’t Dress For Dinner, and toured in the 30^th anniversary production of Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw playing Dr Rance. Other notable parts include Father Jack in Dancing at Lughnasa, Canon Throbbing in Habeas Corpus, and Sidney Bruhl in Deathtrap.

For Vienna’s English Theatre he appeared in Intent to Murder, followed by a six-month tour with the Theatre Royal, Bath in Sheridan’s The Rivals.

Most recently he spent nearly a year in Scotland at the Festival Theatre in Pitlochry, playing Lukyn in Pinero’s The Magistrate and Seth Lord in The Philadelphia Story.

As a director David has staged numerous national tours, including Private Lives, Relatively Speaking, Rebecca, Veronica’s Room, Steaming, and the first stage adaptation of John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga.

Recently David devised and performed Here’s Richness!, a one-man show about Charles Dickens in which he plays over twenty of his characters from Fagin to Mrs Gamp! He lives in Eastbourne, and has a six-year old West Highland Terrier called Oliver (Twist).