About Us
Bobby Moore, Co-founder and Artistic Director
Equity name: Robert Camron-Moore
© George McIntyre
Bobby was sixteen when he played his first acting rôle with a local amateur dramatic group (but can’t remember the play now!), then played Albert Tufnell in Sailor, Beware! at seventeen and has never stopped acting since. He learnt a lot of his craft from working with various amateur groups and found that the vast majority had a very professional approach to their drama. He now has over forty years' experience of acting and directing, with occasional technical work too.
Memorable rôles include: playing Danny in Night Must Fall (at age twenty); Widow Twanky in Aladdin the Pantomime; Captain Boyle in Juno and the Paycock; the Parson in The Three Estaites (2000); Geppetto in Pinocchio (pantomime); Billy Bond in
Father of the Man which toured round Edinburgh and then to Dublin; Francis Fryer in Calamity Jane (musical); Wee Jimmy in Jimmy and the War - the play that inspired the formation of Engross Theatre Group; and many more unforgettable rôles too numerous to mention here!
In his late teens he also started playing folk music, and with his best pal from school, formed a group called Sovereign Folk, playing in clubs and pubs mostly around Edinburgh, but they also ventured to Bo’ness and Pitlochry. They joined the Scotia Agency and one of the agents was some young chap called Bill Barclay (whoever he is!) a damned good entertainer himself.
The acting didn't take a back seat though - Bobby trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in the early 70s. After graduating he joined Equity and worked in theatres in England before returning to Scotland. In the 80s he and a group of friends devised a live-act Punch and Judy Show that was adaptable for indoors or outdoors and toured round Scottish Folk Festivals to entertain the children - and the mums and dads too of course! Bobby played Mr Punch. All the characters wore papier-mâché masks which Bobby designed and made.
Bobby also entertains in residential care/nursing homes and day centres playing guitar and singing well-known songs; not just
Tipperary or folk songs but Sinatra, Elvis, Cliff Richard, The Beatles, and even Abba and of course Scottish songs. He loves to see the enjoyment that the older members of our society get when he sings to them, and the pleasure and fun when singing to people with additional support needs.
The pilot of the Special Schools Project was a great success - Bobby had fun and got immense satisfaction that the youngsters were learning through an entertainment media. Bobby brings to Engross Theatre Group his vast experience in acting and directing in all forms of theatre, ranging from plays, pantomime and musicals, to rôle-play and forum theatre.
Teamwork is essential for any group to succeed and Bobby and Yvonne make such a great team that they made it permanent by getting married in August 2009.
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Yvonne Moore, Co-founder and Artistic Director
Equity name: Yvonne Rose-Moore
© Bobby Moore
Yvonne Moore (previously Yvonne Briglmen) has been working in theatre for many years, acting and directing, taking all sorts of theatre to all sorts of venues, from large theatres to areas just about large enough to swing a cat in! She has worked with a wide range of audiences including the elderly, the partially-sighted, those with Alzheimer's Disease, in schools, and of course, people with learning disabilities, performing everything from performed readings to full-scale productions.
In 1998 she led the cast of The Red-Haired Tornado, playing Mary Slessor, the missionary from Dundee, in a story about her life. In 2000 she played
Danger in an open-air version of The Thrie Estates in Fife, directed by John Carnegie, where she worked alongside well-known names in theatre such as Michael Mackenzie, Gerda Stevenson and the incredibly talented musician John Sampson (who blows his 'own trumpet'!)
She has been selected for various student films including one for Edinburgh's Telford college, where she played a depressed mum! (not much acting required at the time, she jokes!)
She enjoyed meeting the now-famous Hollywood star Hugh Dancy on the set of Daniel Deronda in 2000 for the BBC, which was her first dalliance into television, albeit as an extra! She was very pleased to gain praise from Richard Jobson, in his film 16 years of Alcohol, for a small rôle as an irate T.V. shop owner.
In 2003 she toured to Edinburgh and Buckhaven in The Chameleon Inheritance, written by Millie Gray, in which she thoroughly enjoyed portraying a high-class tart called Miss Virginia!
Review by Maureen Sangster: "Yvonne is striking as Miss Virginia, that indispensable comic figure, a true vamp! Panache and captivating physicality."
One play The Father of the Man, toured around Edinburgh in 2004, before being performed in Dublin in 2005, for The International Mental Health Conference.
Review by Thom Dibdin: "Thanks to three great performances, this works really well."
Review by Susan Mansfield" "deftly acted by…Yvonne Briglmen"
In a 2004 Edinburgh Fringe production, Capital Cameos, Yvonne entertained audiences in two short sketches, Priorities and On A Street Corner, which was
"made by some fine acting by Yvonne Briglmen", said The Scotsman's reviewer James Smart
She really enjoyed being directed by Nazli Tabatabai, (see
ZENDEH productions) and subsequently by her husband Bobby, in Cecilia Rose’s award-winning comedy, Rubbish, where she played stair-heid gossip, 'Aggie', part of Citadel's 'It Makes You Think' project. She has worked with Tricktales, which specialises in Forum Theatre techniques, most recently working for a Diabetes Awareness conference at Heriot-Watt University.
Currently her face is being seen in the film, I’m In Away From Here, written, produced and directed by
Catriona MacInnes, which has competed in ten Short Film Festivals around the world, and won awards at Nashville and Arcipelago in Rome. In it she plays the mother of a lad with Asperger’s Syndrome, drawing upon her real-life experiences of having a son with autism.
These are just some examples of her huge experience of acting gained over the
last 22 years. Yvonne’s original training as a primary school teacher, her
acting and directing experience, and the challenges of raising a son with
autism, combine perfectly with her husband Bobby’s vast experience of theatre,
making them an ideal team to form Engross Theatre Group
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