The Savoy Beggar's Opera

Nigel Holloway has been involved in theatre for as long as he can remember.  Over the years, he has performed in just about all of Gilbert and Sullivan's works, and has directed, produced and musically directed many others.  He claims that his theatrical career started with Orsino in Shakespeare's Twelth Night, and has gone down hill ever since.  His lowest point was a modern dress production of Die Fledermaus, where he played Eisenstein as a Hollywood film producer.  He has now stopped listing his principal roles in show programmes due to lack of available space! 

To reflect his ego, all his latest performances have been confined to playing gods and noblemen - Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld, Lord Mountararat in an open air production of Iolanthe, and several roles (including Prince Cherny) in the outrageous comedy muiscal, LittleMe!

He has written two novels, several plays for television and radio, and many fictional serials for magazines.  He has also written a series of stage plays for performance by amateur musical societies.  To find out more about these hilarious comedies, visit www.off-the-wall-plays.co.uk.

Three of them, Ripping Off Angels,  Big Idea  and Prima Donna have been adapted as podcasts, which can be downloaded from the off-the-wall-plays website, or from iTunes. 
Nigel originally wrote his adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for the Concept Players, an amateur group based in South East Wales, with a fine reputation for musical excellence and imaginative and creative staging.  The actual writing of the adaptation took three years from its inception to the UK premier.  In 2006, it was accepted for publication by Lazy Bee Scripts, following their acceptance of Big Idea for publication.

Nigel has just finished the latest in the Off-The-Wall series of plays, called Murdering the Mikado, as well as a stage play, entitled Travesty, about the life of Charlotte Charke, an eighteenth century actress.  He is currently working on another radio play, called Burning, a television serial called Foppington's Mask, and discussing the possibility of adapting the  Off-The-Wall plays for television. 

You can contact him on nigel.holloway@beggars-opera.co.uk