Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Steven Berkoff

  • English actor, writer and director
  • Birth name was Leslie Steven berks
  • Born on 3 august 1937 in Stepney, London
  • Other plays apart from Metamorphosis include Barrow in Furness, In the Penal Colony and the Trial
  • All plays are complex physocoligically and nightmarish
  • Plays are often described as violent, show unpleasant emotions and are also quite filthy
  • Was described as one of the major minory dramatists in Britain
  • Was married to a woman named Shelley lee but got divorced and is now living with Clara Fisher in East London
  • Wrote plays and then acted in them due to getting roles form auditions elsewhere
  • Has made more than 80 films and television roles
  • Has jewish Russian ancestry and his Grandparents from Russia to Britain in the 1890s
  • His father was Abraham, a tailor, his mother was Pauline and he has a siter, Beryl
  • He was evacuated during world war two to Luton
  • At the Edinbrigh Fringe festival, he is the most peformed playwright after Shakespeare
  • Berkoff has a daughter with whom he is not in contact with
  • He desribes his personality as a child as 'a shy, withdrawn daydreamer who took pleasure in my isolation.'
  • Produced metaphorphosis in London in 1968

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