TRADER’S WORLD – a joyful birthday tribute to stage, film and tv actor, writer, director, translator, raconteur, acrobat and Flamenco dancer, Trader Faulkner, who died in 2021- performed by his friends from the worlds of music and theatre.
So glad I didn’t miss it! An all- star line-up from @7stararts celebrating the special genius of the late Trader Faulkner with an ace evening of music, dance & drama – from Gershwin & Vivien Leigh to Shakespeare & Noel Coward with a fabulous touch of Flamenco – they did Trader proud!
Gyles Brandreth on Twitter, 2021
In his long, colourful, extraordinary career, Trader Faulkner worked with the greats of twentieth century theatre, including Peter Finch, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Quayle and Paul Scofield, many of whom became life-long, close friends, and had encounters with a broad array of characters including Pablo Picasso, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie Jacques, Noel Coward, Martin Amis and Christine Keeler
Propelled by enchanting stories from his biography “Inside Trader”, read by his friend actor and writer Bill Roberts, we ‘put a girdle round about the earth’ in 90 minutes – from Australia to London to New York, to France and Andalusia, illustrated with the music of Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, De Falla, Albéniz, Piazzolla… and the poetry of Shakespeare, Lorca, Coward…
Performed by a starry international cast, including
Anthony Hewitt piano
Elena Lorenzi singer
Emma Arizza violin
Sofia Kirwan-Baez singer
Stefano Marzanni piano
Susan Porrett actor
Viv McLean piano
William Roberts actor
Trader Faulkner
