George Irving was a founder member of the South Shields Youth theatre in 1966, and a director from 1968 - 69.
He worked at the National Youth Theatre from 1966 - 73, and attended Birmingham University Drama department , graduating in July 1973, with B.A.Hons in Drama.
He has appeared in repertory in Newcastle, Exeter, Birmingham and Leicester, and a season at the Open Space.
| year | play | role | author | venue | other cast members | review | |
| 1980 | Hedda Gabler | Lorborg | Ibsen | Haymarket Theatre Leicester | |||
| The Bedbug | Ivan Prisypkin | Mayakovsky | Gate Theatre | Fiona Gaunt | |||
| 1980 | If Winter Comes | Oswath | Bush theatre Leicester Haymarket |
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| Mrs Vershinin | Alexander Vershinin | Cooper | Glasgow and Hamburg | ||||
| 1980 | Commitments | Will | Hughes | Bush theatre and BBC television broadcast. |
Alan Rickman |  |
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| 1982 | The Miss Firecracker Contest | Mac Sam | Henley | Bush theatre | |||
| 1982 | Destry rides again | Kent | Gershe | Donmar warehouse | Jill Gascoine, Alfred Molina |   |
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| 1983 | Shona | Harry | Craze | Soho Poly | |||
| 1985 | The Woolgatherer | Cliff | Mastrosimone | Lyric Studio Hammersmith | Kate Lock | ||
| 1985 | Rumblings | Neil Gater | Gibbs | Bush Theatre | Belinda Lang | ...an abundance of expert close-contact comic acting | |
| 1986 | Twelfth Night | Orsino | Shakespeare | Leicester Haymarket | Sylvester McCoy | ||
| 1986 | The Miss Firecracker Contest | Mac Sam | Henley | Greenwich Theatre | Gayle
Hunnicutt Sandra Dickinson |
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| 1988 | A Tale of Two Cities | Dr Manette Marquis de St Evremande |
Dickens/Mitchell | Theatre Royal, Bath, and Arts Theatre Cambridge. | Philip Middlemiss | ||
| 1989 | Poor Beast in the rain | Danger Doyle | Roche | Bush theatre and BBC radio broadcast. |
Catherine Cusack | Any trivial reservations about Poor Beast (its archetypal dramatic curve, climaxing in a drunken exchange of home truths, smacks of the "difficult second play" syndrome) evaporate in the context of the trilogy as a whole, which is simply the fringe theatre event of the year and then some. | |
| 1989 | On the verge | Alphonse,
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Overmyer | Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells |
Paola Dionisotti , Juliet Stevenson. |  |
...joined by the extraordinarily versatile George Irving, playing a variety of roles from the Yeti to a 50s dreamboat. |
