Shakespear at Arbutus with Chris Humphreys!

This Friday we were treated to a private performance from actor, swordsman and novelist Chris Humphreys. Chris not only gave beautiful recitals of parts of well know Shakespearean plays, he explained them at the same time. He started theatre in London in 1978 with Shakespeare and then went on to TV. In 1991 he came to Vancouver and was involved with Bard on the Beach that had just been started with Christopher Gaze. During the day he helped build sets and then acted at night. In the beginning the tents were partially exposed and when a storm came in they kept performing in the rain and lightening. He only had stage fright once and got over that with the adrenalin he gets from acting. He now is a writer of plays with Shakespeare in the plot and his current one is "Hamlet and Swords" More information on his books can be found at www.cchumphreys.com