Updated 28th of June 2006

What has Steven Pacey done recently

This is older news culled from the Whats the cast doing now page.


Steven is currently appearing at the Regents Park Open Air Theatre. He is playing Oberon in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Percival Browne, the father, in Sandy Wilson's 'The Boyfriend.' They are playing in Rep from 31 May through to 09 September. 'Midsummer Night's Dream' - last performance 30 August, 'The Boyfriend' - first performance 18 July, last performance 9 September. See website for dates of when each play is being performed. Book online or call 0870 060 1811. Source Horizon - 23/6/06

The second series of 'Distant Shores' in which Steven plays Martin is due to air in early 2006. Source Horizon - 23/11/05

Currently appearing at the Cottesloe Theatre, South Bank in `Democracy' by Michael Frayn. Although the play runs until October 4th, it is practically sold out for the entire run, For returns, call the box office on 020 7452 3000. Source Horizon - 13 Aug 03

Steven plays DCI Malcolm Savage in ITV's new drama M.I.T (Murder Investigation Team), a spin off of `The Bill.. Each of the 8 hour- long episodes opens with the grizzly discovery of a dead body. A Sun Hill copper, a teenage girl entombed in concrete, a small child's torso (and practically accompanying limbs), etc. It's not pretty stuff, but the Murder Investigation Team - led by DC Rosie McManus (Lindsey Coulsen) and DI Vivien Friend (Samantha Spiro) have only one objective - to find the killer and prove without a shadow of doubt who did it and how it was done. The first episode airs on Saturday 3rd May on ITV1 at 9.15pm.

Source Horizon - 1 May 03

The website says of Steven's character - Detective Chief Inspector Malcolm Savage - `Malcolm has been with the Met all his working life. Not just a good detective, he's also a damn nice bloke. Being such a soft touch the others do play up to him. As DCI, he's the boss; all major decisions are his, but with so many cases on the go he's a busy man. Ironically his wife works for the Police Complaints Authority. He thinks her rebellious, passionate side has rubbed off on him. But really, he couldn't be further from the truth!' Steven said there were 2 episodes out of the series in which his character featured more prominently than in the others. For more info, check out the website.

Source Horizon - 1 May 03

Steven starts filming a movie in Italy in May (details soon) and has also recorded some more audio books and played a villain in a recent episode of Yorkshire TV's `Heartbeat'.

Source Horizon - 1 May 03

Stephen has just recorded another Talking Book, called 'Seeking Robinson Crusoe' by Tim Severin. He's also recorded some more documentary narrations and a German advert. Source Horizon 24-Jul-02

Steven Pacey reprises his role in 'Celebration' as part of the 'Pinter on the BBC' series. BBC4 is televising a portion of The Almeida Theatre Company's production of this Harold Pinter comedy set in a restaurant. As a group of friends celebrate over a meal, details of their private lives are very publicly revealed. It is directed by Harold Pinter and the full cast is Keith Allen, Lindsay Duncan, Steven Pacey, Andy de la Tour, Lia Williams and Susan Wooldridge. Pinter at the BBC: Celebration is on BBC4 Friday 08 November 10:00pm to 10:45pm. Stephen will be playing Scott Ginsburg in Michael Rudman's 'Benchmark' alongside Jerry Hall from 11th September to 20th October at the New End Theatre, New End, Hampstead, London NW3 - Box Office 020 7794 0022.

Harriet Monkhouse: Unfortunately, all three of the reviews I have seen so far say the play is appallingly bad, though two of them think Ms Hall does quite well in the circumstances.

Michael Billington of the Guardian says "Stephen Greif also lends her hippy lover a certain rugged, ponytailed grandeur." The others mention him without assessing his performance.

So probably not one to rush out for unless you really want to see Travis with long grey hair and sandals, claiming to have discovered inner serenity in a Tibetan monastery.

Play: On a park bench in Los Angeles, California, two men who once knew each other well meet by chance. One of them has just returned from a Tibetan monastery, the other is operating his business from a laptop. Is this really a chance encounter? Enter a mute young woman, a sandwich salesman and 'Sugar', an ex-wife to them both.

Source Horizon - 2 Sep 02

Steven will be playing Tony Blair in the BBC's forthcoming political satire 'Jeffrey Archer - The Truth.' Written by 'Drop the Dead Donkey's Guy Jenkin, amongst the prestigious cast will be Richard Wilson (the Duke of Edinburgh) and Greta Scacci (Margaret Thatcher). It presents the world as seen through the eyes of the disgraced Tory peer through his own rose-tinted spectacles. No broadcast date available as yet. Source Horizon - 9 Aug 02

Steven opens on 19th March in Somerset Maugham's comedy 'The Constant Wife' at the Theatre Royal Windsor for 2 weeks, then going straight into town from 2nd April 02 at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. The play is directed by Edward Hall (son of Sir Peter) and also stars Jenny Seagrove, Simon Williams, Sara Crowe, Serena Evans, Linda (The Avengers) Thorson and Lucy (Survivors) Fleming.

19/30 March 02 - Theatre Royal, Windsor. Box Office 01753 853888.

02 April 02 onwards - Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1. Box Office 020 7494 5070

THE CONSTANT WIFE: Somerset Maugham's comedy of marital manoeuvres ran for three years in the United States before opening in London in April 1927. When Mortimer Durham storms into the Middletons' home revealing that Constance's husband is having an affair with his wife, Constance refuses to create a scene. A year later, and financially independent, Constance feels entitled to sexual independence. She announces that she will, as John has done, take a short break by having a holiday with an early admirer, leaving John first outraged and then appreciative of his remarkable wife.

Source Horizon - 13-3-02

Constant Wife - due to close at the Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue on 29 June, The Constant Wife has now transferred to the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 for a further 3 months from 02 July to 05 October. Box Office: 020 7494 5045. Steven stars as John Middleton, along with Jenny Seagrove as his wife, plus Sara Crowe, Serena Evans, Lucy Fleming, Simon Williams & Linda Thorson.

Source Horizon - 4-July-02

Steven was heard on 20th July in BBC Radio 4 in 'The Poetry Disease', written by Alan McDonald, with poems by Char March, and has just appeared in New York reprising his roles in Harold Pinter's 'Celebration' and 'The Room' at The Lincoln Center Festival, 24/28 July. Horizon (12 Aug 2001)

'Dolly West's Kitchen' in which Steven Pacey appeared last year, has just been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play, with Pauline Flanagan nominated as best supporting actress. Source - Horizon (28 Jan 2001)

Steven starred in The Room/Celebration, a double bill at the Almeida Theatre, Islington, North London, from 16 March to 29April. This was a production of Harold Pinter's first and latest play, directed by him. The cast have been invited to New York in the summer of 2001 for a week to reprise their roles. Source - Horizon (14 Dec 2000)

There's a new audio book narrated by Steven Pacey called "Niccolo Rising" by Dorothy Dunnett. It is available for £19.95 plus £2.95 P&P from The audio book collection, Freepost (BA 1686/1), Bath BA1 3QZ - order code ABC 1094. (Thanks to Andrew and Jackie Ellis for the info via Horizon.)

Thought you'd like to know I'm definitely doing a Guy de Carnac (my character from Sanctuary) audio drama to be recorded by BBC next year. It's a sort of Cadfael meets The X Files, and on a B7 note I've got them to put Steven Pacey in the frame for the title role. Though I picked him because of the radio Childhood's End, not because of his role as Tarrant! Source - David A McIntee

Steven starred in The Room/Celebration, a double bill at the Almeida Theatre, Islington, North London, from 16 March to 29April. This was a production of Harold Pinter's first and latest play, directed by him. The cast have been invited to New York in the summer of 2001 for a week to reprise their roles. Source - Horizon (14 Dec 2000)

There's a new audio book narrated by Steven Pacey called "Niccolo Rising" by Dorothy Dunnett. It is available for £19.95 plus £2.95 P&P from The audio book collection, Freepost (BA 1686/1), Bath BA1 3QZ - order code ABC 1094. (Thanks to Andrew and Jackie Ellis for the info via Horizon.)

Thought you'd like to know I'm definitely doing a Guy de Carnac (my character from Sanctuary) audio drama to be recorded by BBC next year. It's a sort of Cadfael meets The X Files, and on a B7 note I've got them to put Steven Pacey in the frame for the title role. Though I picked him because of the radio Childhood's End, not because of his role as Tarrant! Source - David A McIntee

Steven will be touring the UK in 'A Family Affair' which is based on a French play by Agnes Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri, adapted (and directed by) Andy de la Tour. Apart from Steven, Rik Mayall will also be in the cast. Dates: 16/21 October - Regent Theatre, Stoke on Trent - BO 01782 213800 23/28 October - Arts Theatre, Cambridge - BO 01223 503333 6/11 November - Theatre Royal, Bath - BO 01225 448844 13/18 November - Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford - BO 01483 440000 20/25 November - Churchill Theatre, Bromley, Kent - BO 020 8460 6677 27 November/2 December - Richmond Theatre, Richmond - BO 020 8940 0088 4/9 December - Theatre Royal, Brighton - BO 01273 328488 11/16 December - Festival Theatre, Malvern, Worcs. - BO 01684 892277 Source - Horizon.

"A family get-together like no other. Henry's mother, brother and sister-in-law turn up to celebrate a birthday. But Henry has missed his brother's crucial television appearance, his mother has brought the most inappropriate present and his younger sister is in trouble with both her boss and her secret boyfriend. Poor Henry is at the end of his tether, only to discover his wife has disappeared and his favourite dog seems about to breathe its last." Source Carol McCoy.

Steven Pacey is to play 'Alec' in Frank McGuinness's 'Dolly West's Kitchen' at the Old Vic, London SE1. Previews from 5th May, with press night 17th May. The play is set in Southern Ireland during WW2. Box office No. (020) 7928 7616 The play is expected to run for a couple of months but dates are not yet certain. source Horizon - 17 April '00

Steven Pacey is doing a Pinter double bill at The Almeida in Islington from 22nd March until April 29. Two short Pinters. Pinter's first play, The Room, and the premier of Pinter's newest play, Celebration, which Pinter is directing. It's a limited run and they are recommending that anyone who wants to see it to book asap. With Lia Williams from The Uninvited. Source Carol McCoy and Cult Times.

Steven Pacey is playing the part of Basil Hallward in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' this Sunday (30th January) on Radio 4 at 3pm.

It is a two part play with part two on the following week (Sunday 6th February). It is also repeated on Saturday 5th February at 9pm with part two being repeated on Saturday 12th February.

Steven has just finished filming a pilot for a Canadian TV show called 'Pipedreams'. Source - Horizon (28 Dec 1999)

Stephen is in the series "Quando, Quando, Quando". on BBC Radio 4 at 6:45pm in 6 x 15 minute shows starting 13th November.

The following was spotted by Nicola Collie and Carol McCoy.

Steven Pacey can be heard on radio 4 in a dramatisation of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel, playing a charming aristocrat. Part 1 will be repeated Saturday, 30 October, at 9 pm.

Part 2 is on Sunday 31 at 3pm (and will presumably be repeated the following Saturday)

Extracts from the Radio Times: "The Classic Serial: Grand Hotel by Vickie Baum. Part : The best hotel in Berlin entertains the famous and the infamous. Grusinskaya, a prima ballerina, blames her diminishing audiences on the pearls that, up to now have been her talisman. But someone is set to steal them - and her heart. Part 2: The baron schemes to replenish his fortune. The industrialist seeks distracrions from the pressure of business and the clerk is determined to taste the decadent pleasures of Berlin. Staff at the hotel are very discreet."

RoleActor
The BaronSteven Pacey
PreysingDavid Bradley
KringeleinRichard Derrington
Flammchen / KittyTeresa Gallager
Dr Otternschlag / ZinnowitzChristopher Scott
Senf / WaitzTerry Molloy
Rohna / Gerstenkorn / BarberIan Brooker
GeorgiRichard Curnow
AlsoEstelle Kohler and Sunny Ormonde
So you know to look for it... Steven Pacey will be featured in the new Harold Pinter play, CELEBRATION, scheduled for The Almeida, Islington. It previews the week of March 16. Opening night is March 20, 2000. Also starring with Steven will be Lindsay Duncan and Lia Williams, with Pinter directing. Box office is 0171 359 4404. Source Carol McCoy.

Steven has recently toured with Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party along with Prunella Scales & Timothy West.

The play: Macabre celebrations in a seaside boarding house. Stanley lodges in the seaside boarding house owned by Meg & Petey Boles. One day his peaceful, if mundane, existence is threatened by the arrival of mysterious strangers Goldberg & McCann.

Source - Horizon


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