Carmen Rodriguez

Silda Grauman

Carmen is delighted to be coming back to beautiful Vienna for her second appearance at Vienna’s English Theatre, having played Julia in the theatre’s acclaimed production of the American farce Lend Me a Tenor in 2011. In London’s West End, Carmen’s favourite roles have included the decidedly mad Lady Markby in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, the monstrous matriarch Mrs Warren in Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession, the very badly behaved Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the equally badly behaved, scheming 12^th century English queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, in The Lion in Winter. Last year she loved playing Wilde’s most famous dragon, Lady Bracknell, in a 6-month tour of England and Ireland in The Importance of Being Earnest for London Classic Theatre. Carmen has appeared twice at London’s award-winning Finborough Theatre, in Outward Bound (as an insufferable snob, Mrs Cliveden-Banks) and J M Barrie’s What Every Woman Knows (as the astute and mischievous French aristocrat, the Comtesse de la Vierge). Other work includes Hamlet and Macbeth (both for Cherub Company), What the Butler Saw (National Tour), Gertrude’s Secret (Leeds Grand), Peapickers (Eastern Angles Theatre), Death of a Salesman (Manchester Royal Exchange), and Bare Necessities (Belgrade, Coventry).