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Annice Boparai in Trojan Horse for Lung and West Yorkshire Playhouse

Annice will be playing Elaine in Matt Woodhead’s production of Trojan Horse at Summerhall in Edinburgh from 1st – 26th August. 

Trojan Horse is a co-production between Lung and West Yorkshire Playhouse which uses the real-life testimonies of those at the heart of the UK Government inquiry into accusations that ‘hardline’ Muslim teachers and governors were plotting extremism in Birmingham schools.

The production has been selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 shows to see at Edinburgh this summer.

https://festival18.summerhall.co.uk/event/trojan-horse/

 

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Seamus Allen

Seamus trained in his hometown, Dublin at the Conservatory of Music and Drama. After graduating he toured nationally with some of Ireland’s premier children’s theatre companies, as well as developing and performing clown performances for Barrabbas, and magic shows for Cahoots N.I. 

Since moving to the UK Seamus has appeared in The Tempest, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and Robin Hood (Creation Theatre Company), Quest (Folklore Presents) The Disappearance (The Sticking Place),and Where’s My Desi Soulmate? (Rifco Arts). Tv work includes Bear Behaving Badly (Thames Valley).  Seamus is also a skilled improviser, training with Ken Campbell’s School of Night and core cast in the annual London 50 hour Improvathons and performs with “Austentatious, The improvised Jane Austen Novel”.  

Seamus was the director of the Young Company at the Watermill theatre in Newbury. He established Readings only Improvisation comedy club, “What’s the Game?! Improv”, hosting shows as well as coaching professional performers.  Seamus was Head of acting at Read college, a course which he wrote and which became one of the most successful Foundation courses for getting students into the top acting degree programmes in the UK.  Most recently he has been Head of Year at Drama Studio London and gained an MSc in Performance Psychology focusing on excellence in actor training.

Seamus is Head of Foundation and teaches on the Foundation Courses