Jasper Talbot

Jasper was most recently seen playing the lead, Nick Guest, in Michael Grandage’s THE LINE OF BEAUTY at the Almeida Theatre, to glowing reviews:

WhatsOnStage 4****

“At the centre of the production is Jasper Talbot, who follows his acclaimed turn in Inter Alia at the National with another top-tier performance as Guest. Talbot captures the character’s knowing awkwardness with a quiet precision: his Nick feels at once benign and deeply flawed, meandering through a miasma of hypocrisy and opulence. You can sense his intoxication with the Feddens’ glittering world, even as he tries to hold himself at a careful distance from it. It’s a performance full of small, telling hesitations – a portrait of a man forever caught in a purgatorial battle between desire and observance.”

The Standard 4****

“After graduating from Oxford our aptly-named, middle-class protagonist Nick Guest (played with chameleonic fluidity by rising star Jasper Talbot) moves in with the monied, Notting Hill-dwelling family of Toby Fedden… Talbot, Edwards, Harrison and Amedwudah-Rivers stand out from a fine ensemble.”

Telegraph 4****

“It’s hard not to be charmed, even seduced, though, by Jasper Talbot’s blank, boyish, preppy interloper, who amuses with his gauche attempts at elevated small talk and chat-ups.”

The Independent 4****

“Jasper Talbot’s fluent performance brings new agency and confidence to this beefed-up central role. When we first meet Nick, he’s a directionless but fearless postgrad student who’s attached himself to the moneyed Tory family of his old Oxford University crush, the bluff and uncomplicated Toby (Leo Suter).”

Financial Times 4****

“As Nick, Talbot manages skilfully the tricky balance of remaining an observer — and, by definition, peripheral — and tracing the subtle changes in his character; before long, Leo is supplanted in his affections by the supremely wealthy Wani (Arty Froushan).”