STUART BOWMAN TRAINED:Mountview CRITICAL QUOTABLES FILMS and TELEVISION see Internet Movie Dababase THEATRE Year Theatre Company Name of Play Character 1997 Dundee Rep Cat on a Hot Tin Roof * Brick 1998 Edinburgh Festival/ (Glasgow Citizens Company) Don Carlos ("rehearsed reading") . 1998 Edinburgh Festival/ (Glasgow Citizens Company) The Maid of Orleans ("rehearsed reading") . 1998 Edinburgh Festival/ (Glasgow Citizens Company) Passion and Politics ("rehearsed reading") . 1998 Edinburgh Festival/ (Glasgow Citizens Company) The Robbers Schweizer 1999 Glasgow Citizens Company Blood on the Thistle Brian Newcombe, alias the Casanova Conman 1996 Glasgow Citizens Company Dracula Dracula 1996 Glasgow Citizens Company Hamlet Fortinbras 1998 Glasgow Citizens Company The Homecoming Teddy 1998 Glasgow Citizens Company Macbeth Macduff 1998 Glasgow Citizens Company The Millionairess Alastair Fitzfassenden 1999 Glasgow Citizens Company Pygmalion Freddy Eynsford Hill 1995 Glasgow Citizens Company Trainspotting * Franco Begbie/ Mr McKay/ Johnny 1999 Glasgow Citizens Company Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Nick 1993 TAG Theatre Company A Scots Quair Trilogy Ewan Tavendale

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, Dundee Rep, 14/31 May, 1997

. . .director Richard Baron captures both the humour and the twisted hatred that drives this magnificent study of lives warped by deceit. The characterisations are human enough for us to augh in recognition . . . but the social graces barely conceal the spiteful and ungenerous self-interest that truly motivates this family.

Using the most inguistically explicit version of the script, one that shifts the emphasis away from Bricks's repressed homosexuality towards a more general commentary on false relationships, Baron draws out a clutch of excellent performances. . . There's little of the former all-American sportsman in Stuart Bowman's portrayal of Brick, but he brings a disturbing stillness, and profound anger to the part.

Colin Donald, SCOTSMAN, May 17, 1997

. . . Richard Baron's corruscating new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) is a reminder that this play is definitely "major" Tennessee Williams, an extraordinary arena for his mixture of psychosexual fireworks, southern Gothic and wisecracking family farce. The story of a sexed-up belle taunting an alcoholic ex-sports hero over his dead friend, while fighting to inherit the land of a dying patriarch, brilliantly shows off William's best trick' to reveal people's financial and sexual greed while maintaining a humane sympathy for their predicament.

. . .Baron is a master of casting, and the performances he coaxes from an immaculate ensemble led by Clare Burt as "Maggie the Cat", and Stuart Bowman as Brick are truly remarkable.

TRAINSPOTTING, Glasgow Citizens Circle, 27 February-18 March, 1995

. . . The point is that the people portrayed live under our noses, in shop entrances, under bridges, in areas of the city theatregoers do not frequent. When the characters take the form of Stuart Bowman's psychopathic Franco - twitchy, nervy, unrestrained, unpredictable, violent - it would be well to give them a wide berth, . . .

Joseph Farrell, SCOTSMAN, February 25, 1995

. . .Stuart Bowman is rivetingly horrific as the hardman Franco . . .

Richard Loup-NolanINDEPENDENT, March 4, 1995

The four-strong cast are uniformly outstanding. . . .Stuart Bowman's psychopathic misanthrope Franco is terrifyingly plausible. . .