Oberon Rules OK
International singing sensation and West End star Richard Munday swaps one crown for another with his next stage role.

richard munday.jpgHe played the Bard’s murderous king Macbeth when Shakespeare 4 Kidz went on tour to Dubai earlier this year. Now he is gearing up to play king of the fairies, Oberon, in a revival of the company’s hit musical version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Richard, aged 31 and originally from Chepstow, is a member of the acclaimed Twelve Tenors line-up which has fans all over the world. They are a talented group of Europe's finest singers who perform some of the greatest music of the 20th century from opera to pop, swing and numbers from the shows, singing in Spanish, Italian, French, German and even Chinese.

Richard’s previous Shakespeare credits include a raunchy leather-clad Tybalt in a tour of Romeo and Juliet, which saw him riding on to the stage on a flash Honda Fireblade motorbike, and the love-struck Prince Ferdinand in S4K's The Tempest.

He took over Macbeth’s crown from Jason Lee Scott, who toured with the show in the UK. And by a quirk of Fate, both actors have played ragamuffin twin Mickey in London’s long-running musical Blood Brothers – Richard’s favourite role thus far in his career.

Now Richard is looking forward to strutting his stuff for a magical spell in the Athenian woods as king of fairyland, doing battle with his feisty wife Titania and trying to keep control over his troublesome sidekick Puck.
Says Richard: “Oberon is a wonderful, mysterious almost fantastical character and he has a lot of rhyming couplets which the actor needs to get a good grasp of!”

When he’s not performing Richard, who currently lives in Forest Hill, South London, is heavily into sport and competes in marathons and triathlons.
 
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