spear carrier

It's years of security then you are back out there, auditioning and playing second spear carrier on the right."

The foreign secretary has said it shows that Britain is not "some bit-part or spear carrier on the world stage".

His first professional appearance came two years later, playing a spear carrier in Henry IV.

Hired by Peter Cheeseman at Stoke as an assistant stage manager and "spear carrier in King Lear", after the first night he was offered a full-time role - and never went back to university.

"I started out as a spear carrier at the Royal Shakespeare Company for two years, understudying.

To make matters worse, Soyinka is a chronic name-dropper and so vain that he often sees himself as centre stage when he is in reality not much more than a spear carrier.

The major results for Canada will be to get a lot more soldiers killed in a hopeless meat grinder while having its international reputation ruined by being seen more and more as Washington's spear carrier. Keeping the soldiers in the southeast in any capacity until 2011 is an almost sure fire recipe for disaster.

McInemy would "gladly be a spear carrier in the opera of American fiction".

Who were you in that?' 'I told him I was a spear carrier but he didn't believe me.

Bathurst - whose unpromising debut on the London stage was as a spear carrier in St Joan at the National Theatre - has made it.

I feel that the only way that I can answer the questions I have about it is by performing it." Ibsen has intrigued Bening since she began acting, even though, as she says, "I was never even a spear carrier or anything in a small production anywhere - not that there are spear carriers in Ibsen."