Michael Mears

Michael Mears

We are delighted to announce that actor Michael Mears will give the MAW Remembrance Lecture for 2023.
The lecture will be entitled The role of the arts and culture in promoting peace and opposing war, and will take place on Saturday, 11 November at 2 pm
The venue will be the Oasis Hub, 1 Kennington Road, London SE1 7QP and the event will be free.

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Michael has had a rich and varied career in theatre, television and film – including seasons with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Peter Hall Company, portraying many classical and Shakespearean roles. He has also worked in many of the UK’s regional theatres as well as performing in London’s West End on a number of occasions.



But he is perhaps best known as an award-winning performer of his own original solo plays for theatre and radio.
He has performed This Evil Thing (2016), a solo play which tells the inspiring story of the men who said no to war, more than 100 times in many venues in the UK and in the eastern USA.

The play tells the story of Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers of his time, and Bert Brocklesby a young school teacher and Methodist preacher in south Yorkshire, who both, in their own ways, resisted conscription. In the play, what happened to them and to a host of other characters is brought to life by Michael – partly using verbatim testimonies.
Last year, The Mistake, his play about Hiroshima and the first atomic bomb, a play for two people, was mounted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has since played in London. It is due to tour UK-wide this autumn.
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