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Terri Paddock talks with Philip Quast
Australian actor Philip Quast, currently starring in the National Theatre revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's wartime musical South Pacific, would have preferred to be a palaeontologist but enjoys playing angsted males.
Although Australian actor Philip Quast is an accomplished all-rounder on stage and film, he is best known - and loved - by British theatregoers for his musical theatre.
His UK musical credits include: the RSC's Les Misérables; Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George at the National, for which he received the Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical); The Hunting of the Snark; the Donmar Warehouse's The Fix (for which he received a second Olivier for Best Actor in a Musical); Hey, Mr Producer!, a tribute to impresario Cameron Mackintosh; and, in 2001, The Secret Garden (for which he has been nominated for a Whatsonstage.com Award for, guess what, Best Actor in a Musical).
Quast's other theatre credits include Saint Joan, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida and The White Devil; and in Australia, Into the Woods, The Mystery Plays, The Threepenny Opera and No End of Blame.
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