Siân Thomas

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Siân Thomas
Born (1953-09-20) 20 September 1953 (age 70)
Merlin

Siân Thomas (born 20 September 1953) is a British

Amelia Bones.[2]
Her voice is known to listeners both for her poetry readings on Radio 3 and for her audiobooks.

Career

Thomas played a prominent role in 1993 TV film

chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis. The film also featured Thora Hird as Deric Longden's mother Annie. Thomas played partially-sighted Aileen Armitage
, the novelist who would become Longden's second wife in 1990.

In 2002 she appeared in London's West End theatre production

Madonna. The critic Michael Billington commented that "Madonna is not positively bad: just technically awkward. But, fortunately, she is buttressed by strong supporting players. Sian Thomas, who can get a laugh simply through the flick of an eyelid, is superb as a Courtauld-trained consultant longing to get her revenge on the corporate world."[4]

In 2004, Thomas played the leading role of

Shakespeare's sometimes complex lines exactly the right stress to bring out the subtle antitheses. He noted, too, that she brought out the character's steadily growing "tactical and emotional isolation".[5]

In the musical Spring Awakening in London in 2009, she and Richard Cordery played "all the adult roles with cartoon-like aplomb".[6]

In 2010, Thomas played the leading role of the queen in the National Theatre Wales's production of Aeschylus's The Persians, described by The Guardian as "a tremendous performance as the queen, a woman of fiery splendour reduced to ululating agony as the disasters mount and she cries 'this is the peak of my misery'."[7]

In 2011, she played the leading lady Martha in the Northern Stage and Sheffield theatres co-production of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. The critic Clare Brennan commented that she and the leading man Jasper Britton "seize the parts for their own", as Thomas's Martha "part praying mantis, part puppet, jerks around the stage as if impelled by forces trying to rip free from her control – despair, grief and rage."[8]

From 2012 she appeared as Atorloppe in the BBC's

Merlin series.[9]

Thomas has read poetry for the BBC Radio 3 programme Words and Music.[10] She has also been employed on several audiobooks including Allison Pearson's I Think I Love You and Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.[11]

Family

Thomas spent part of her childhood living in Canada. She is the sister of the actress Sara Mair-Thomas.[12] Her partner is the British poet Tony Harrison.[13]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ "Sian Thomas | Official London Theatre". 10 March 2016. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Exclusive: More Potter casting". BBC. 10 February 2006. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Wide-Eyed And Legless". Archived from the original on 23 September 2016.
  4. ^ Billington, Michael (24 May 2002). "Up For Grabs, Wyndham's Theatre, London". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  5. ^ "RSC Macbeth". The Guardian. 19 March 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  6. ^ Spencer, Charles (4 February 2009). "Spring Awakening at the Lyric, Hammersmith - review". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  7. ^ Billington, Michael (13 August 2010). "The Persians". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  8. ^ Brennan, Clare (27 March 2011). "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf. Sheffield Crucible". The Observer. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  9. ^ "Merlin: Disir". BBC. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Nocturne". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Sian Thomas narrated Audio Books". Simply Audio Books. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  12. ^ Vernon, Sarah (2003). "Archive Interview • SIAN THOMAS • The Price • Apollo Theatre • 2003". Rogues & Vagabonds. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  13. Guardian Unlimited
    . Retrieved 11 February 2007.

External links

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