ComXo, Shakepeare & Eastenders meet for the first time
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Published Online 11 June 2007
Soap Star On Stage
An Eastenders actor swopped Albert Square die Shakespeare when he made his theatrical debut in Henry V.
James Alexendrou, alias Martin Fowler, took to an open air stage in Windsor with the Britsh Shakespeare Company on Saturday, hosted by ComXo.
He played Pistol in the play about the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 - when the outnumbered English army defeated the French in Normandy - and he recieved rapturous applause from the audience.
The lead was played by Robert J Williamson, who has appeared in ITV's Emmerdale and last year launched a campaign for a national Shakespeare Day.
The play was performed in the grounds of ComXo founder and MD Andrew Try's family home on Friday, to an audience of 300. Profits were for Thames Hospicecare.
Mr Try, whose company has offices in Horton Road, Datchet, said: "It's the second year we have put on a British Shakespeare Company play and next year I would like to turn it into a two or even three-day little Festival."
