Keith Myers

Vic Johnson

Keith is delighted to be back in Vienna, he was last at Vienna’s English Theatre playing the scandalous Reverend Dicky Sainsbury in Michael Frayn’s farce Donkey’s Years. He has played leading roles in many comedies including; Charles Condomine in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, Lucien in George Feydeau’s Late Relations, Bertie, the outrageous housekeeper, in the famous farce Boeing Boeing, Leo in Game Plan by Alan Aykbourn and the manic bra salesman Mr Shanks in Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus. As a huge fan of Bennett, in 2009 he was delighted to be asked to play Graham in A Chip in the Sugar, one of his acclaimed Talking Heads.

Keith is also a popular Pantomime Dame and has appeared all over the UK, this year it was as the Widow Twanky in Aladdin.

Since he was last in Vienna he has been to Berlin to play a vicious prison guard in the film Prison Food and last month went to Bournemouth to play a suicidal ice cream man in the film Ice Cream Dreams which will premier at the London film festival.

For most of 2010 he was touring the UK playing the Court Usher in Agatha Christie’s court room drama, Witness For the Prosecution. He was also resident director on the show and one of his more demanding jobs each week was to rehearse in the 20 or so local amateur volunteers who played the jury and court officers.

Keith has a passion for gruesome murder thrillers and particularly enjoyed playing the wicked Harry Roat in Wait Until Dark, Harold in Murder By Misadventure, Captain Lesgate in Dial ‘M’ For Murder, Arthur Christie in Who Killed ‘Agatha’ Christie? and touring for many weeks as Dr John Weeden in Jeffrey Archer’s Beyond Reasonable Doubt.

In 2009 he toured in Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession as the scoundrel Sir George Crofts and as soon as he returns to England will be playing Charles II in Shaw’s In Good King Charles’ Golden Days in the grounds of the playwright’s house. After that he is off to Broadstairs to play Philip in Alan Aykbourn’s classic comedy Relatively Speaking and lady-killer George Love in a new two handed play The Mysterious Mr Love.

As soon as he finished pantomime this year he went on to play The Playwright in the world premier of Tennessee Williams’ late piece, I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark On Sundays, which is transferring to London’s West End in September.

Although he doesn’t loose his trousers this time, he is having enormous fun playing the hapless Vic in Funny Money.