Mark Rawlings

Having recently played a drug fuelled rapist in Marianne Elliott’s Women Beware Women at the National, and prior to that a scar faced mass murderering sidekick to Patrick Stewart’s Macbeth on Broadway, it comes as a bizarre and strangely euphoric relief to now be attempting something a little more off centre, namely a suicidal homosexual Japanese business man – variety is after all the spice of life!

 Since leaving LAMDA a decade ago he has managed to cram in, amongst others,a Twelfth Night (Chichester), a UK tour of The Play What I Wrote, a Cyrano de Bergerac, Iago in Othello, a world premiere of Trevor Nunn’s Sophie’s Choice at the Royal Opera House and a fist full of adverts.

Mark reprised his role as Lennox in the movie version of Macbeth, which has just won a coveted Peabody Award and is due for Blue Ray DVD release next month. Whilst researching the part of “Hello Kitty” he asked a world-renowned psychic what it was like to take your own life? She answered;

                                 Suicide is painless, it brings on many changes, but you can take or leave it if you please.