Travels With My Aunt Reviews

Shortlist of reviews compiled by the Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre

Reviews that specifically mention Steven Pacey

“Steven Pacey is also excellent as Henry, endowing the character with a buttoned-up, quietly chivalric decency.”

“…Steven Pacey’s thoroughly (to the point of dully) decent Henry about to undergo an invasive police examination in a Turkish jail-house. “It’s at times like this that one wonders: how did I get here?” this retired bank manager asks, in the first of many time-freezing asides to the audience.”

“…endearing lead performances from Patricia Hodge and Steven Pacey”

“Pacey has a certain put-upon charm…”

“Steven Pacey’s Henry has a loose-limbed, rather boyish physicality that allows him more easily to let go. He is never quite as straight as the beige-cardigan-over-pinstripes combo would have him appear. He also brings a sympathetic tenderness to the iffy relationship with teenage hippy Tooley (Haley Flaherty), though this doesn’t stop several members of the audience recoiling in shock when they kiss.”

“Steven Pacey…does excellently in conveying both the strait-laced demeanour of a middle-aged, middle-class Englishman while showing flashes of steel beneath.”

Travels with my Aunt – Production Photos

A collection of production photos from Travels with my Aunt have been published by the Chichester Festival Theatre on Facebook.  Only those featuring Steven are shown here, but the full album can be viewed here – CFT Facebook Album.

Steven Pacey (Henry Pulling) in Travels with My Aunt directed by Christopher Luscombe. Photo Tristram Kenton — at Minerva Theatre.

Steven Pacey (Henry) and Patricia Hodge (Aunt Augusta) in Travels with My Aunt dir Christopher Luscombe. Tristram Kenton — at Minerva Theatre.

Joe Abercrombie book recording – Sharp Ends

A photo of the author, Joe Abercrombie and Steven Pacey at the recording studio (taken in March)

Just come from recording for Sharp Ends with the magisterial Steven Pacey… pic.twitter.com/BlJMG5AGCa

— Joe Abercrombie (@LordGrimdark) March 3, 2016

Liberator Chronicles – Volume 12

The next instalment in the Big Finish range of Blake’s 7 audio stories is due to be released this month.  Check out more details on the Big Finish website.

Stories are: Corners of the Mind by Andy Lane, Capital by Guy Adams and Punishment by Guy Adams.

Image used with permission.

Travels with my Aunt – Rehearsal Photos

The Chichester Festival Theatre have released a number of photos from Travels with my Aunt.  Only the ones featuring Steven are posted here, but you can view the rest on the CFT Facebook – Travels With My Aunt Rehearsal Photos Album page.

Photo credit Tristram Kenton.

Steven Pacey and Haley Flaherty. Photo credit Tristram Kenton.

Steven Pacey, Patricia Hodge and director Christopher Luscombe. Photo credit Tristram Kenton.

More audiobook recording

Steven is currently preparing for another audiobook recording session this coming week.  The novel is “The Song Before it is Sung” by Justin Cartwright.

Updates as to when this is released will follow in due course.

Liberator Chronicles – Volume 12

 Photo used with permission. Credit: Lisa Bowerman/Big Finish

Big Finish have released more details about their next release in the Blake’s 7 audio series – Liberator Chronicles – Volume 12.

The stories Capital and Punishment will feature Steven as Del Tarrant.

Big Finish News – LC 12

New Audiobooks

Steven is this week recording the Joe Abercrombie series ‘Sharp Ends’. There are 13 short stories in total and are due for release in April 2016.

A Blog post on Joe Abercrombie’s website gives details of the books.

Joanne Harris: A Different Class. Steven will be recording the audio version of this novel later in February.

UPDATED – Travels with my Aunt – Chichester Festival Theatre 2016

Image used without permission

Steven has been cast as Henry Pulling in the Stiles and Drewe’s musical Travels With My Aunt. Based on Graham Greene’s novel, the show will be directed by Christopher Luscombe. He will star alongside Patricia Hodge as Aunt Augusta.

Rehearsals begin in March and the show runs from 18 April until 4 June 2016 at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester.

Tickets from £20.

Chichester Festival Theatre

Sam Eastland – audiobooks

Steven has recently read two audiobooks by author Sam Eastland.

The Beast in the Red Forest: Inspector Pekkala, Book 5
Author – Sam Eastland

Publisher’s Summary

A soldier returns from the front line of battle to report that Pekkala’s charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.

On Stalin’s orders, Pekkala’s assistant, Kirov, travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap. A new enemy has emerged from the fog of war, more deadly than any Kirov or Pekkala have ever faced before.

Pursuing the legend of a half-human creature said to roam the landscape of this war within a war, each step brings Kirov closer to the truth about Pekkala’s disappearance. Meanwhile, Pekkala’s nemesis is also closing in for the kill.

Sam Eastland lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a London police detective. Eye of the Red Tsar, the first in the Inspector Pekkala series, was followed by The Red Coffin and Siberian Red.

©2013 Sam Eastland (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

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Red Icon, Inspector Pekkala – Book 6
Author – Sam Eastland

Publisher’s Summary
In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the crypt of a German church. There, clutched in the hands of a skeleton priest, they find The Shepherd – a priceless icon thought to have been destroyed long ago. When news of its discovery reaches Moscow, Stalin calls upon his most trusted investigator, Inspector Pekkala, once a favourite of the tsar and known to all of Russia as The Emerald Eye.

To unravel the secret of the icon’s past, Pekkala traces its last known whereabouts to a band of self-mutilating radicals known as The Skoptsy, who were hunted to extinction years ago by the Bolshevik Secret Police. Or so it was believed. As Pekkala soon learns, the last survivors of this brutal sect have clung to life in the shadowy forests of Siberia. With the reappearance of the icon, they have returned to claim the treasure they say belongs to them alone, bringing with them a new and terrible weapon to unleash upon the Russian people. Unless the Emerald Eye can stop them.

Sam Eastland lives in the US and the UK. He is the grandson of a London police detective. Eye of the Red Tsar, the first in the Inspector Pekkala series, was followed by The Red Coffin and Siberian Red.

©2015 Sam Eastland (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

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