Sam Crane is currently making audiences jump out of their seats in the Agatha Christie thriller And Then There Were None at the Gielgud.
And while he doesn’t want to give away too much about what happens to his character, the 26-year-old is willing to say he does not spend much time on stage after the first half hour of the show.
“It’s quite a horrific story, it’s quite extreme,” he laughs. “When I first read the book I thought it was extraordinary and it does freak you out a bit. I have a small-ish part but it’s one which has a big impact and it’s the kind of role you can really have fun with and relish playing.”
Sam went to university in Oxford before doing a two-year postgraduate course in acting.
Since graduating two years ago he has already worked with Frantic Assembly on their show Rabbit, which toured the UK and came to the Lyric, Hammersmith.
“It was a real dream of a first job,” he says. “Since then I’ve done the play Major Barbara at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. That was about the arms industry and although it was written 100 years ago you couldn’t find a better take on the subject today.”
Sam also recently took part in the Old Vic’s 24-hour plays and was in A Little Requiem To Kantor at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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