An Evening with Sir Derek Jacobi in conversation with Richard Clifford

Sir Derek Jacobi is an icon of stage and screen known for his work at the Royal National Theatre. He is a BAFTA, Olivier, Emmy, Screen Guild and Tony Award-winner and, to top it all off, Derek was given a Knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II.  Not bad for a boy who grew up in Essex and the son of a corner shop owner and a secretary.

With peers such as Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn, and as one of the founding members of the National Theatre and invited to be a member of the Birmingham Rep, Derek is an enormous talent with Shakespeare running through his blood.

Six decades and so many favourites… such as I, Claudius, Gladiator I, Gladiator II, Last Tango in Halifax, The Crown, The Day of the Jackal, Nanny McPhee, Gosford Park, The Kings Speech and much in between.

His Shakespeare work is vast with notable performances in Hamlet and Othello to name a few. And not to forget… his audiobook work as the narrator for the BBC children’s series In the Night Garden.

Richard Clifford: Actor and Producer

Richard starred in Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and Loves Labours Lost, directed by Kenneth Branagh, took part in the MA course The Shakespeare Authorship Question at Brunel University, and has been a director at the Folger Shakespeare Library for 20 years to study the collection and look at the Oxford Geneva bible. With Richard in the driving seat for the evening, there will be an incredible degree of insight, joy of Shakespeare and so much more as he has also been Derek’s partner since the 1970s.