Faz Singhateh - Actor In Henry V Faz played the Earl of Westmoreland, who is cousin to King Henry. He is part of that elite group surrounding the young King, an aristocrat, used to total obedience from his social inferiors, and to getting his own way. Faz is a young black Londoner, and acting in this play touched on some significant personal matters for him. He has appeared in plays dealing with contemporary issues concerned with racism, and during the Stephen Lawrence investigation he felt personally affected by this real life murder and the subsequent tragedy for Stephen’s parents. Doing plays that deal with such very real and deeply troubling situations can, he admits, be frightening. As with Henry V it was a peculiar experience to be ‘playing’ at war whilst your contemporaries were actually at war, for real: “you rehearse, you march up and down, practice a skirmish, all these things – and then you go home and it’s the actual war (in Iraq) on the telly all over again.” |  | |
