Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)

Last Update: 21 March 2001

Sean auditioned to attend RADA in April 1980.

He was accepted, and enrolled in the January 1981 (Spring) term at the school. He attended RADA until April 1983 (the end of the Spring 1983 term), when he graduated with an Honours Diploma and three prizes: the Silver Medal (2nd highest award after the Gold Bancroft Medal), the Ware Prize, and the Crean Prize (Figar Prize).

In 1981, Acting Diploma Courses at RADA were seven terms long (this changed to nine terms in 1984).

Sean attended RADA over the following period:

Term 1 (Spring 1981)
Term 2 (Summer 1981)
Term 3 (Autumn 1981)
Term 4 (Spring 1982)
Term 5 (Summer 1982)
Term 6 (Autumn 1982)
Term 7 (Spring 1983)

 

While at RADA, Sean appeared in the following plays:

Term / Title

Playwright

Character

 Summer 1981
   

Fears and Miseries of
the Third Reich

 Bertolt Brecht
 

 King Lear

William Shakespeare

Duke of Albany
     

 Autumn 1981
   

 The House of Atreus

Greek Mythology

Agamemnon

 The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare

 Pistol
     

 Spring 1982
   

 The Country Wife

William Wycherley

Mr. Pinchwife

 Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

 Fabian
     

 Summer 1982
   

 The Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

Andre Prozorov

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

Flavius/Popilius/Cinna
     

 Autumn 1982
   

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

Pozzo

 One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest

Dale Wasserman (adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey)

McMurphy

The Pajama Game

George Abbott &
Richard Bissell

Pop
     

Spring 1983
   

Medea

Euripides

Jason

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

 Messenger/Guard/Musician

Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare

 Angelo

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