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MARY BLAKE (Gill Stoker)
RESIDENT
Mary's first and only ambition
was to be a cross-country runner, but the onset of intermittent agoraphobia
during her teenage years put an end to that. She has battled with
the illness ever since, and only manages to get out of the house for shopping,
and weekly church and choir practice. Travel beyond the village is
out of the question. Now in later life she broods about all the opportunities
she has missed, which helps to explain her general demeanour of sadness
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GILL STOKER BIOGRAPHY
Gill studied drama at Rose Bruford
College and singing at the Blackheath Conservatoire. Her stage roles
have been diverse, ranging from Barbarina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro,
to a female Pope in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, a dog in a pantomime and
a performing horse in Büchner's Woyzeck. She has played an assortment
of characters on screen: a bag lady, a psychotic granny, a kidnapped granny,
a vindictive neighbour, a nosy neighbour, a disapproving neighbour, a nun,
a cream cake thrower, an art teacher, a Victorian hospital matron, a stern
head librarian, and sometimes even a more or less normal person.
She recently appeared with Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen in a spoof political
documentary 'Vote for Laurence' (BBC3). Gill also enjoys doing photographic
modelling, voiceover work and poetry readings. She is currently developing
a one-woman show based on Ethel Smyth, the composer and suffragette, to
be performed in the autumn at the Harrow Arts Centre.
Spotlight: Gill
Stoker |
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