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1961
The Ring of Truth (Ch: Mr Prizborksi)
Play of the Week Production for Television
1963
Z Cars (Ch: Yador)
Ep: Daylight Robbery
The Birth of a Private Man (Ch: Jurek Stypulkowski)
1964
Camino Real (Ch: Gutman)
Play of the Week Production for Televison
Danger Man (Ch: Tewfik)
Ep: Fish on the Hook
R3 (Ch: Jan Wolkowski)
Ep: A Whole Lot of Reasons
The Human Jungle (Ch: William Jones)
Ep: Wild Goose Chase
The Other Man (Ch: Doctor Klaus, a nazi doctor)
Political TV Drama
1965
Stateless (Ch: George Lidz)
A "Front Page Story" Production for Television
The Man in Room 17 (Ch: Max Opals)
Ep: Tell the Truth
Mogul (Ch: Lenz)
Ep: The Schloss Belt
1966
The Man in Room 17 (Ch: Yasha Saroya)
Ep: How to Rob a Bank - And Get Away with It
The Baron (Ch: Reiner)
Ep: And Suddenly You're Dead
The Big Spender (Ch: Lamarck)
A six part TV drama serial for the BBC
Ep: Featured in All.
The Saint (Ch: Nikita Roskin)
Ep: The Helpful Pirate
1968
The Champions (Ch: Max Kellor)
Ep: The Dark Island
1969
Dance of the Seven Veils (Ch: Joseph Goebbels)
An Omnibus Production for Television (BBC)
Callan (Ch: Dicer)
Ep: Little Bits and Pieces of Love
Strange Report (Ch: Kulik)
Ep: Report 7931 Sniper, When is your Cousin Not?
1970
A Distant Thunder (Ch Hans: Weider)
A Play for Today Production for Televison
The Fall of Venice (Ch: Casanova and Himself)
An Omnibus Production for Television (BBC)
UFO (Ch: Dr Doug Jackson)
Eps: Exposed/The Cat with Ten Lives/ Kill Straker/The Psychobombs
Review Programme
Reads poem by Iles for BBC TV [>]
1971
Pilatus und Andere (Ch: Kajfasz/Caiphas)
Directed by Andrzej Wajda for West German TV
Was shown on Polish TV and released in Polish Cinemas in 1975
UFO (Ch: Dr Doug Jackson)
Eps: The Man who came Back/Timelash/Reflections in the Water/Ordeal/
Court Martial/The Long Sleep
1972
The Protectors (Ch: Sandor Karoleon)
Ep: Brother Hood
The Main Chance (Ch: Otto Zobel)
Ep: First you eat, Later we ruin you [◙]
UK TV Series
1974
The Deep Blue Sea (Ch: Doctor)
Play of the Month Production for Television
Dial M for Murder (Ch: Yerimenko)
Ep: The Man in the Middle
Napoleon and Love (Ch: Prince Josef Poniatowski)
Mini Series developed for Television
No Honestly (Ch: Giovanniani)
Ep: Only Make Believe
QB VII (Ch: Egon Sobotnik)
Mini Series developed for Televison
1975
Rogues' Rock (Ch: Ivanov)
Drama Series developed for Southern Television [¥]
1976
The New Avengers (Ch: Zarcardi)
Ep: Cat amongst the Pigeons
1977
The Kitchen (Ch: Mr Marango)
Play of the Month Production for Television
Night of the Marionettes (Ch: Hubert)
Part of the BBC's Supernatural Drama Series
Won the prestigious Hamilton Deane Award [awarded by The Dracula Society
and presented by Christopher Lee] for his performance as the sinister inn-keeper Hubert ± Vladek was then made an honorary member of the society.
1979
Ghost Sonata (Ch: Bengsston)
Drama Series developed for Television
Quest of Eagles (Ch: Polish Priest)
Mini Series developed for Television
Running Blind (Ch: Kennikin)
Made for TV Drama in 3 parts
Eps: Sixteen Rivers To Cross (ep 2) & The Deception Operation (ep 3) [◙]
1980
Shogun (Ch: Captain Ferriera)
Mini Series developed for Televison
1982
Smiley's People (Ch: Otto Leipzig)
Mini Series developed for Television (BBC)
1984
Let's Parlez Franglais (Ch: The Client)
Video for the Band: Propaganda (Ch: Dr Mabuse)
Plays in the video for the band's album A Secret Wish (Vladek says this was filmed at 'A Haunted Castle in Kent')
1986
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (Ch: Mohammed Ali Jinnah)
Mini Series developed for Television
The Lost Secret (Lost Secret 2000) (Ch: Professor Basil Sline)
Educational Drama for English Tutorial purposes
The End (Ch: Voice Over)
18 minute film noir for UK
Switch on to English
Makes a guest appearance on this BBC TV quiz show [>]
1988
Champagne Charlie (Ch: Le Comte Plasky)
Mini Series developed for Televison (Canada and France)
Freitag for RFN
1992
Neighbours (Ch: The Frenchman)
Australian Drama Series (appeared in 3 episodes)
The Bill (Ch: Mr Lederman)
UK Drama Series for Television
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Vignettes [Television]
In the 1967 Dr Who epsiode "Tomb of the Cybermen" the role
of Klieg was to have been played by Vladek Sheybal - no further
details are available at the moment.
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Vladek appeared in/directed the following programmes. [◙]
However, the dates provided are from the Midlands TV Area only and
cannot be verified as being the original air dates, so they are housed
here until such time as they can be verified when they will be moved
to the appropriate page on the website.
{A} signifies Acting Role
{D} signifies Directing Role
Play Of The Week {A}
(ITV: 19/12/1961) Ep: "The Visitors"
The Sentimental Agent {A}
(ITV: 02/11/1963) Ep: "Meet My Son Henry"
Court Martial {A}
(ITV: 29/04/1966) Ep: "Silence Is The Enemy"
Theatre 625 {A}
(BBC2: 06/11/1966) Ep: "Amerika"
The Main Chance {A}
(ITV: 28/09/1970) Ep: "First you eat, Later we ruin you"
Television Playhouse {D} & adapted for television by Vladek
'Jeanette' by Jean Anouilh
(ITV: 23/11/1961)
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 | UFO
Dr Jackson |  | Dangerman
Tewfik |  | QB VII
Egon Sobotnik |  | Smiley's People
Otto Leipzig |  | The Champions
Max Kellor
|  | The Saint
Nikita Roskin |  | Strange Report
Kulik |  | No Honestly
Giovanniani |  | The New
Avengers
Zarcardi |  | Shogun
Captain Ferriera |
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The Last Viceroy
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Photo: Stefan Sas-Korczynski |
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Dangerman © 1964 Carlton International Media Limited
The Saint © 1966 Carlton International Media Limited
Dr Who © 1967 BBC Television Limited
The Champions © 1968 Carlton International Media Limited
The Strange Report © 1969 maintained by original owners
UFO © 1970 Carlton International Media Limited
No Honestly © 1974 maintained by original owners
QB VII © 1974 Screen Gems, a division of Columbia Pictures Industries Inc
The New Avengers ©1979 maintained by original owners
Shogun © 1980 Paramount Pictures Corporation
Smiley's People © 1982 BBC Television Limited
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy © 1986 maintained by original owners |
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Vladek Sheybal
in an as yet
unidentified
role [1] ± |  | | |
Please Note:
This section is not yet complete; in some cases dates
and/or venues/character names are missing.
Polish theatre appearances are not yet included.
My thanks to Artur Patek for his help with parts of
this section.
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1960
Passenger without Luggage (Ch. Lead)
By: Anhuille
Venue: London
1963
Nathan der Wijze (Ch. unknown)
By: (unknown)
Venue: (unknown)
1964
He Who Gets Slapped (Ch. unknown)
By: (unknown)
Venue: (unknown)
The Cloud (Ch. unknown)
By: (unknown)
Venue: (unknown)
1973
Mahler (Ch. Gustav Mahler)
By: Maurice Rowdon
Venue: Arts Theatre, London
1977
Salome (Ch. Herod)
By: Oscar Wilde
Venue: Roundhouse Theatre, London
Variations on The Merchant of Venice (Ch. Shylock)
By: William Shakespeare
Venue: Open Space Theatre, London
1978
Emigrees (Ch. Lead)
By: Mrozak
Venue: London
1979
Korchak (Ch. Korchak)
Directed by: Alexander Ford
Venue: English Theatre, Copenhagen
1988
The Eagle and the Serpent (Ch. Friedrich Nietzsche)
By: Pierre Bourgeade
Venue: (unknown)
This production was Vladek's final theatre appearance
Undated Appearances:
Human Roundabout (One Man Show)
By: Vladek Sheybal
Venue: (unknown)
Performs own songs
Touring
With readings of poetry and with Conway & Garcia
Musical Duo (flute and guitar)
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Notes:
In various documents Vladek mentions involvement in
the 1989 production of Alma
(Ch. Oscar Kokoschka & Gustav Mahler)
By: Maurice Rowdon
Venue: (unknown)
but there is no further information available at the
moment, therefore it cannot be verified
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 | Vladek Sheybal
in an as yet
unidentified
role [2] ± |
± My thanks to Brian Lamb for his kind
permission to use these two lovely
photographs. | |
| | The Cherub Company, London
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In December 1989, Vladek Sheybal was moved to write a letter to The Cherub
Company, of whom he was a patron, in disgust at the critics' neglect in not
reviewing their excellent 'Duchess of Malfi' production.
The letter is reproduced here as it was written by Vladek Sheybal, and with the kind permission of Andrew Visnevski.
"It is a very sad fact that one of the most outstanding recent London theatre productions, The Cherub Company's THE DUCHESS OF MALFI last November, has gone almost unnoticed. It has not been reviewed by the national press. The critics did not come to see it. Was it too far to go to St George's Theatre in Tufnell Park Road, N7? Is it not their duty to write about productions in London theatres? A documentation of a production is a vital part of the history of the theatre.
Without it the work simply vanishes. Forever.
The previous productions by The Cherub Company have been outstanding.
I can sincerely say that in my entire theatrical life span as an actor and director in Russia, Poland, France, Italy, Germany, the USA and Australia, I rarely saw anything as breathtaking and so amazingly directed and team acted as their DUCHESS OF MALFI. Andrew Visnevski is definitely one of the most original and outstanding directors in English theatre. This is a play rich in emotion. It does not seem possible to "translate" it and make it digestible to modern audiences. Yet it contains the larger-than-life drama, colour and depth of eternal Icelandic saga. It is a combination of Shakespeare, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' traditional Grand Guignol, Lindsay Kemp's FLOWERS and Brecht. Visnevski made the play act run shout cry sing and dance with such full pace that the audience had not a spare moment to breathe. The action runs swiftly and smoothly, the scenes and the visual tableaux instantly converge or withdraw from each other. A simple set or no set at all can create magic in the theatre. Visnevski uses this notion to the hilt. Four vertical ladders and on the top a platform about 2 metres square at the back of an otherwise empty stage. Beyond, hang rich blue curtains split in several places so that the actors can move in and out. They play evocatively with the curtains. They look to the top of them as if they were reading them. They slowly touch them and cover their faces with them. They pull them to the sides and to the front of the stage. They treat them as columns, bedspreads, curtains, people. They hide behind them suggestively and bulge them in and out, up and down, in the movements of lovemaking. They swathe themselves with them. They climb with the dexterity of monkeys up those ladders wearing with ease their deliberately much too long coats. Julia for her love scenes voluptuously trails behind her yards and yards of light, red fabric. She plays provocatively with it, folding and unfolding. She does this with incredible ease.
There were moments when, being an actor myself and knowing the dangers on the stage of badly fitted carpets and spreads, I was petrified for these actors and then proud of them for their skill of walking and running in these movable masses of folds. All of this was done with great abandon and dramatic tension ... sexual innuendo almost splashing all around. I thought that I was not in an English theatre but at the Moscow Art, Brecht in Berlin, or at a Lindsay Kemp production.
The main point of my admiration was the realisation of how the right director with the right actors can co-operate in complete abandon and sacrifice. They represented one unit and one body. They supported each other and complemented each other. They did not spare themselves, doing all jobs, acting, drawing curtains, handing each other the props. Visnevski has developed an amazing style with his actors over the years. They created team acting with great understanding.
It would be a shame to let this company disappear - if Visnevski together with The Cherub Company were to share the fate of the Lindsay Kemp Company in whose unforgettable SALOME I had the honour of playing Herod, with brave Lindsay playing Salome himself. Lindsay was ignored here and emigrated. He enjoys his triumphant success on the Continent and in Japan. There they write about him as 'the English Clown.' Isn't it ironical? This should not be allowed to happen again to the talents and style of Visnevski and The Cherub Company. It would be a shame."
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A brief introduction to the Cherub Company, London.
The Cherub Company, London - a "théâtre sans frontières" - was created by Andrew Visnevski in 1978, as an ensemble of young actors, designers and composers introducing rare classics and continental plays to the stage in a style that proved unconventional and brilliantly visual.
The Cherub Company, London rescued from oblivion such plays as Calderon's LIFE IS A DREAM, THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN by Shakespeare and Fletcher and Middleton's A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE; staged Michel de Ghelderode and award-winning adaptations of Franz Kafka, and took Shakespeare as far afield as the North-West frontier and Sudan! For almost a quarter of a century, The Cherub Company London has inspired audiences and artists, and established a reputation as a foremost innovative touring company, a pioneer and trendsetter in choices of repertoire and performance. |
If you would like to visit The Cherub Company Online, please click here
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