by My wife Bardy Thomas, who died at the age of 77, was a language trainer at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Rada.
Among those with whom she worked over the years, Hugh Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Perkins, Terence Stamp and Lenny Henry, belonged to when he was playing Othello without former Shakespeare experience. Many others, including Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Rayne, Matthew Rhys and Katy Cavanagh, wrote about the importance of their lessons for their career.
Bardy was born in Wheelock, Cheshire, the son of Kathleen (born Black), a housewife, and Albert Henshall, an accountant who was chairman and president of the Stoke City Football Club. She grew up in the nearby small town of Alsager and visited the St. Dominic’s High School in Newcastle-UNDER-LYME, where she discovered a love of literature, especially to poetry.
From 1965 to 1968 she trained as a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and then stayed to join the employees as a language teacher and worked in this role for 11 years.
In 1979 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, also as a language teacher, until she worked freelance in 1981 so that she could reconcile her theater work with the requirements of a young family.
Then she worked on a series of shows in the National Theater, including John Woods Richard III, and led various plays for Art Depot, a theater group that she and I and I on the Almeida Theater in London in London as a sweet as a nut as nut as a nut in London Award in London as a sweet in London Award Award in London in London as Sweet Award Award in London as Sweet Award Award Award Award in London as Sweet Award in London Award Award.
In 1994, Bardy once again accepted a full-time language trainer job in Rada, where she finally became a dean for studies and also like student performances by AS YOU, Cymbeline, a midsummer Night’s Dream, The Rivals and Juno and The Paycock before retirement in 2007.
Between 2016 and 2019, Bardy drove a number of evenings called Shakespeare Out Loud in Halstock, Dorset, who offer people without earlier experience in the plot of a foretaste of how professional Shakespeare’s texts approach. She also wrote two published novels in the Hill (2013) and a good man (2017) and a piece, a temporary star that was intended for radio but was never recorded.
As a beautiful, intelligent and warm woman, she loved her dogs and kitchen garden.
Her first two marriages, actor Tony Robinson and Jem Thomas, ended in divorce. It is survived by me, our two children Jack and Bea, a son, Olly, from their second marriage and three grandchildren, Lucien, Robyn and Margot.
