MOJO - owned by fans

Did these nails a bit back, nothing says back to school like insults and blood.  

"Thank you so, so much for my gifts, I love them! So kind of you! Thanks so much for your support! Please have a lovely Christmas and a very happy New Year! Thanks Again! Colin Morgan"

Colin Morgan took the time to write a message thanking his fans for the gifts they offered him for his birthday. So lovely!

Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre, 12 November 2013)

Mojo was all set up to be a sold out West End succes with its all star cast. I mean, how can a show with Ben Whishaw and Rupert Grint and Colin Morgan and Brendan Coyle AND Daniel Mays be anything other than electric?  

In that aspect Mojo, a play about a business deal gone wrong in the seedy Soho of the 1950s, did not disappoint. The energy and the moody atmosphere brought on by the interaction between these actors was very engaging. Ben Whishaw - obviously - was mesmerising as Baby, the club-owner’s abused son, while Daniel Mays came very close to stealing the show in his great comic double act with Rupert Grint. The latter, by the way, did quite alright for his West End debut and didn’t fall short among the other more seasoned actors, including Brendan Coyle, who plays a decidedly nastier character than honourable mister Bates from Downton Abbey. Colin Morgan’s character was a bit of an odd ball, and he looked a bit quirky on stage at first but then definitely made up for that in his last, incredibly arresting scene.

…He also possesses a dry sense of humour. At one point, he says that what he particularly enjoyed about making his West End debut in the well-regarded revival of Mojo last year was the fact that, “anything could happen… There is one part of the play where I’m dry-wretching, and in reaction to that one night someone was sick in the front row. I know that everyone’s a critic these days, but I can assure you that it wasn’t a reviewer having an extreme response to the play!”

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He welcomed in 2014 in London with a group of friends which just happened to include Harry Potter star Rupert Grint, Brideshead Revisited actor Ben Whishaw and Daniel Mays, who recently played Ronnie Biggs.

At the time they were all appearing together at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the critically-acclaimed drama Mojo. They had just a few hours off between their performance on New Year’s Eve and their first show of 2014. So what exactly did they get up to?

“I can’t say!” he laughs. “But we had an amazing view and there were fireworks.”

Just 12 months earlier, the Cardiff-born actor was being named as ‘one to watch’ by Box Office but now he’s working with some of the biggest names in the industry and seems perfectly at ease with it.

He was in London, where he now lives, when I heard he had landed the role of Silver Johnny.

“I was really excited to have the opportunity to work with the director Ian Rickson,” he says of the Olivier Award-nominee who once ran London’s Royal Court Theatre.

“I knew the boys were attached to the play and I wanted to do more theatre.”

He describes Grint as “a great boy”.

“It was his first play,” he says of Mojo. “His feet were so firmly planted on the ground. It must be difficult for someone who’s not been out of the spotlight. He’s a great actor. We were working with people like Ben Wishaw and Daniel Mays who are veterans so if he didn’t have any metal it would have shown immediately but he won the Best Newcomer Award (at the WhatsOnStage Awards).”