Cain
John Caird
Jonathan Cake
David Calder
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Michael Calf
Camille
Camino Real
Cheryl Campbell
Il Candelaio
Can Opener
The Canterbury Tales
Captain Swing
John Carlisle
Jason Carr
Carrie
Nancy Carroll
Elaine Cassidy
The Castle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Changeling
Jan Chappell
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson Awards
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paddy Chayefsky
Anton Chekhov
Nick Chelton
The Cherry Orchard
Children of the Sun
Alison Chitty
A Christmas Carol
Christopher Columbus
Tony Church
Caryl Churchill
The Churchill Play
Clay
Dennis Clinton
A Clockwork Orange
The Collection
Patience Collier
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
The Comedy of Errors
Complete Works Festival
Comrades
Kerry Condon
William Congreve
Shelley Conn
Paule Constable
The Constant Couple
Nina Conti
Kandis Cook
Ron Cook
Dominic Cooke
Nigel Cooke
Richard Cordery
Coriolanus
Charlotte Cornwell
Oliver Cotton
Yvonne Coulette
Country Dancing
The Country Wife
Courtyard Theatre
Cousin Vladimir
Andrea J. Cox
Brian Cox
Claire Cox
Cries from the Casement
Crimes in Hot Countries
The Criminals
Derbhle Crotty
Bob Crowley
The Crucible
Frances Cuka
Paddy Cunneen
Liam Cunningham
Julian Curry
Curse of the Starving Class
Curtmantle
Cyril Cusack
Niamh Cusack
Sinéad Cusack
The Custom of the Country
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
One of the leading all-rounders of the contemporary classical theatre, Richard Cordery trained at RADA but worked in relative obscurity until 1981, when he joined the RSC at the Aldwych to play Menelaus in Troilus and Cressida (Terry Hands); Chmuta in The Love-Girl and the Innocent (Clifford Williams); Barnardo in the Michael Pennington Hamlet (John Barton); Cleon/Aeolus in The Maid's Tragedy (Barry Kyle, Warehouse); and Lord Willoughby in Richard II (Hands). He went on to appear for Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and the National—A View from the Bridge (Aldwych, 1987); Bonaventura in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Olivier, 1988)—and was also in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart (David Hayman, Royal Court and Albery, 1986), and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms (Patrick Mason, Greenwich Theatre, 1987).
Cordery has shown a formidable talent for playing the corrupt and the duplicitous (most of the secondary roles in Shakespeare, that club of clerics, nobles and political operators, are his for the taking). Since his return in 1996 has been one of the few exceptional regular players at the RSC: Wilbraham in Edward Bond's In the Company of Men (Bond, Pit, 1996); Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (Michael Attenborough, Pit, 1997, Swan, 1997-98, Small-scale Tour, 1998); Corvino in Volpone (Lindsay Posner, Swan, 1999, Pit, 1999-00); Brabantio in Othello (Attenborough, RST, 1999, Barbican, 1999-00); Dr Warburton in The Family Reunion (Adrian Noble, Swan, 1999, Pit and New York, 2000); Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in Henry VI and Buckingham in Richard III (Michael Boyd, Swan, 2000-01, Young Vic, 2001); Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Rachel Kavanaugh) and Menenius in Coriolanus (David Farr, Swan, 2002-03, Small-scale Tour, 2003); Duncan in Macbeth (Dominic Cooke, RST, 2004, Albery, 2005); Polonius in Hamlet (Boyd, RST, 2004, Albery, 2004); Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Boyd, RST, 2005, Novello, 2005); Egeon in The Comedy of Errors (Nancy Meckler, RST, 2005, Novello, 2006); and multiple roles in Boyd's 2006-08 Histories at the Courtyard—reprising Humphrey (Henry VI) and Buckingham (Richard III) and adding Edmund of Langley (Richard II) and the Lord Chief Justice (Henry IV).
Education: RADA
RSC: Joined 1981
Seasons: 1981 (Lond.); 1996 (Lond.); 1997/98 (Lond./Strat./Small-scale Tour); 1999 (Strat.)-99/00 (Lond./New York); 2000/01 (Strat.)-01 (Lond.); 2002/03 (Strat./Small-scale Tour); 2004 (Strat., core company)-04/05 (Lond.); 2005 (Strat., core company)-05/06 (Lond.); 2006/07 (Strat., Complete Works); 2007/08 (Strat., Histories company)
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