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Dramatis are an English synthpop band formed in the early 1980s. Chris Payne ( vocals, keyboards), Russell Bell ( guitars, keyboards), Cedric Sharpley ( drums), and Denis Haines (keyboards) were all originally members of Gary Numan's backing band. They formed Dramatis following Numan's announced retirement in April 1981.
They released seven singles and one album before disbanding in 1982. Two of their singles reached the UK Singles Chart: the 1981 single with Numan " Love Needs No Disguise" which reached number 33, and the 1982 single "I Can See Her Now" which reached number 57.
Cedric Sharpley died from a heart attack on 13 March 2012.
In December 2013, former members Chris Payne and Russell Bell announced the reformation of the band. A new album is set to be released in 2014 with Rusty Egan on drums.
Usage examples of "dramatis".
Dramatis Personae in the New Atlantan parts of London, but that was the adjective they always used anyway, delivered in a near-whisper, with brows raised nearly into the hairline and eyes glancing significantly over the shoulder.
Cato by Joseph Addison From The Works of Joseph Addison in three volumes 1848 DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
Thus dream dramatises on the impulse of some faint, hardly perceived real sensation.
The following Dramatis Personae may be of help in resolving ambiguities.
The Clown was a mechanical device, but Dramatis Personae hadgood enough to allow Carl Hollywood to control it- and tomuch of Hackworth's personal script and storyline- forduration of the show.
In some rational compartment of his mind that had now become irrelevant, Hackworth wondered whether Dramatis Personae (for this was the name of the troupe that was running this show) had got some nanosites into his system, and if so what exactly they were doing to his mind.
It had quickly become clear to Hackworth that a man could get a bad reputation simply for having known that Dramatis Personae existed-at the same time, it was clear that almost everyone had heard about it.
This was fortunate as he had gone into a slow backward spin and soon found himself falling face-first, passing through great amorphous clouds of light: a collection of old chandeliers that Dramatis Personae had scavenged from condemned buildings.
Carl Hollywood had known little of Hackworth until several hours ago, when, alerted by a friend in Dramatis Personae, he had joined his story in progress on the black decks of the show boat.