Two of Steven Pacey’s audiobooks have been re-released as new editions. The first is Robert Harris’ Pompei originally released in 2003, and the other is Ian McEwan’s crime thriller The Innocent, originally released in 1990.
A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Only one man is worried.
The engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct which brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta’s sixty-mile main line – somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
Attilius – decent, practical, incorruptible – promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But as he heads out towards Vesuvius he is about to discover there are forces which even the world’s only superpower can’t control. Pompeii recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, it offers an entirely original perspective on the Roman world.
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present, comes 25-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life – and to lose his unwanted innocence.
The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening – a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he’s willing to shed.
Mindset, Episode 3 of Series 2 of the Blake’s 7 Classic Audio Adventures is released today by Big Finish.
This is the third of 6 episodes, one to be released every month for 6 months, the first being Scimitar and the second, Fortuitas.
Steven Pacey appears once again as Del Tarrant in an episode penned by Jacqueline Rayner. Other original cast include: Paul Darrow (Kerr Avon), Michael Keating (Vila Restal), Jan Chappell (Cally) and Tom Chadbon (Del Grant). Listen to the Trailer.
Mindset
A voice is calling in the darkness. A voice that only Cally can hear.
Vila has abandoned his crewmates, searching for the mythical water of life. With Cally acting suspiciously, Tarrant and Grant face danger at the heart of paradise.
A gift is being offered. A gift that will cost one member of the Liberator crew dearly. But will Cally accept?
Written By: Jacqueline Rayner
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman
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What’s on Stage announced the full casting for RSC’s The Jew Of Malta yesterday. The Jew of Malta is cross cast with RSC’s Love’s Sacrifice which will run simultaneously.
Justin Audibert makes his RSC debut to direct The Jew Of Malta. Full cast (in alphabetical order):
| CAST |
CHARACTER |
| Andy Apollo |
Don Lodowick |
| Sheila Atim |
Attendant |
| Jasper Britton |
Barabas |
| Guy Burgess |
First Knight |
| Beth Cordingly |
Bellamira |
| Geoffrey Freshwater |
Friar Barnadine |
| Marcus Griffiths |
Calymath |
| Rhiannon Handy |
Attendant |
| Simon Hedger |
Merchant |
| Julian Hoult |
Merchant |
| Matthew Kelly |
Friar Jacomo |
| Annette McLaughlin |
Katherine |
| Lanre Malaolu |
Ithamore |
| Matthew Needham |
Pilia-Borza |
| Steven Pacey |
Ferneze |
| Richard Rees |
Martin del Bosco |
| Colin Ryan |
Don Mathias |
| Nav Sidhu |
Callapine |
| Catrin Stewart |
Abigail |
| Gabby Wong |
Abbess |
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Steven Pacey is reading the fifth book in Jussi Adler Olsen’s Department Q crime series, called Buried.
Release dates are yet to be announced.
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Steven Pacey is joining the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon for its 2015 Summer Season. He is performing in two plays: Christopher Marlow’s The Jew of Malta, and Ben Jonson’s Volpone.
The Jew of Malta is a play by Christopher Marlowe, probably written in 1589 or 1590. Its plot is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean that takes place on the island of Malta. The Jew of Malta is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
Malta is threatened with invasion by the Turkish Empire. The Christian Governor attempts to buy off the invading fleet with monies levied from the island’s Jewish population. When the prominent Jewish merchant, Barabas, protests the levy, the Governor seizes his entire fortune to pay the bribe.
As men of all faiths ruthlessly pursue their own interests hidden behind a mask of religious hypocrisy, the enraged Barabas plans a swift and bloody vengeance that threatens to destroy the entire island.
Text from: RSC
Steven plays the character Ferneze, the Governor of Malta.
The Jew of Malta
Swan Theatre
18 March – 8 September 2015
Volpone (Italian for “sly fox”) is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1606. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson’s most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean Era comedies.
Volpone is already a very rich man. But he worships gold, he understands greed, and he wants to get even richer. He knows that the bankers and lawyers and businessmen in the city around him will stop at nothing to make money… more and more money. Sound familiar?
Text from: RSC
Trevor Nunn returns to the RSC to direct Volpone. Steven plays the character Sir Politic, a Knight.
Volpone
Swan Theatre
3 July – 12 Sept 2015
Download a detailed guide to sessions for both plays.
Best wishes for the season, from stevenpacey.com. And directly from Steven: “please send my very best wishes for a great Christmas to one and all!”.
To celebrate, here’s a 1985 rendition of a Storyteller Christmas song, Away in a Manger, sung by Steven Pacey.
Forutitas, Episode 2 of Series 2 of the Blake’s 7 Classic Audio Adventures is released today by Big Finish. This is the second of 6 episodes, one to be released every month for 6 months, the first being Scimitar.
Steven Pacey appears once again as Del Tarrant in an episode penned by George Mann. Other original cast include: Paul Darrow (Kerr Avon), Michael Keating (Vila Restal), Jan Chappell (Cally) and Tom Chadbon (Del Grant). Listen to the Trailer.
Fortuitas
The search for Dayna takes the Liberator to Solace, a former galactic tourist trap fallen on hard times.
When he loses a second member of his crew, Avon is forced to investigate a series of mysterious disappearances. As Orac and Del Grant track a radical new movement that is campaigning for the purity of Solace, a deadly trap begins to tighten. The future is Fortuitas. The future is now.
Written By: George Mann
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman
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The most recent edition of Big Finish’s Vortex Magazine, #69, reveals that Devil’s Advocate, the fifth story in the Series 2 of the Blake’s 7 Classic Audio Adventures will be focussed on Steven Pacey’s character, Tarrant.
Steven Pacey takes centre stage in Devil’s Advocate, by Steve Lyons. “This is very much a Tarrant-based story,” says Cav, “dealing with what he was doing before Blake’s 7, when he just pops up after the war. He’s never really been given a backstory – the majority of the other characters are, but not him. We know he’s been a good Federation officer, which I think is fun to play with. He’s not always trustworthy, but seems to be quite a good man, with principles.
“It’s the usual thing, to think of every Federation officer as a scheming villain, but Tarrant is the opposite of that. We start to develop his backstory, and will return to it at some point. We learn of his links to the Federation hierarchy, with a returning voice that the Big Finish Blake’s 7 fans may very well recognise…”
Text from an interview by Kenny Smith with Cavan Scott,
producer of Series 2 of the Blake’s 7 Classic Audio Adventures
Big Finish’s Vortex Magazine, Issue #69, November 2014, p. 15.
Cast of the Audio Adventures
From left: Alistair Lock, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Daniel Brennan, Buffy Davis,
Steven Pacey, Tom Chadbon and Paul Darrow
Big Finish’s Vortex Magazine, Issue #69, November 2014, p. 15.
Although fans will have to wait until March 2015 for the release of the Devil’s Advocate, Episode 2 of the Blake’s 7 Classic Audio Adventures, Fortuitas, will be released in December. A trailer for Fortuitas is now available.
All the titles in Series 2 of the Blake’s 7 Classic Audio Adventures are available for pre-order now.
Scimitar, Episode 1 of Series 2 of the Blake’s 7 Classic Audio Adventures is released today by Big Finish. This is the first of 6 episodes, one to be released every month for 6 months.
Steven Pacey appears once again as Del Tarrant in an episode penned by Trevor Baxendale. Other original cast include: Paul Darrow (Kerr Avon), Michael Keating (Vila Restal), Jan Chappell (Cally) and Tom Chadbon (Del Grant). Listen to the Trailer.
Scimitar
The crew of the Liberator awaken to find one of their own missing. Where is Dayna? Has their friend been taken or has she deserted them? The search for Dayna leads them to a deserted ship in the middle of a dangerous asteroid field.
But what is the secret of the Scimitar and can Avon get every member of his crew out of the asteroid field alive?
Written By: Trevor Baxendale
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman
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Steven Pacey has been filming a short scene in a new TV series this week. It is called Humans and is a “drama set in the parallel present, where ‘Synths’ (high-tech robotic servants) are the rage and in high demand”. The series stars William Hurt and will be released in August 2015.