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Blackadder's Tony Robinson on why another actor originally played Baldrick

Sir Tony Robinson on unearthing the previously unaired pilot episode of historical sitcom Blackadder and why he's not in it!

WhatToWatch

Lost first episode of Blackadder with different actor playing Baldrick will air in UK

Philip Fox, who later had roles in Midsomer Murders and Waking the Dead, replaced Tony Robinson after he pulled out to take a year-long role with the National Theatre

Irish Mirror

The arts in Britain are teetering on the brink. Here is my plan to save them

The Arts Council should focus on high-quality performances while a new body deals with community-based initiatives, says Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director at the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

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Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

Evening Standard

Dancing at Lughnasa review: ‘a beautiful production of a beautiful play’

First staged in 1990, Brian Friel’s “magnificent memory play” Dancing at Lughnasa has been revived at the National Theatre, said Sarah Crompton on What’s On Stage. And the production, directed by Josie Rourke, is a “glory”. The story is told from the point of view of a man called Michael,…

The Week

King Charles faces dilemma over coronation invite for exiled former aide Fawcett

Royal experts do not expect Fawcett to attend the ceremony

Evening Standard

‘Our identity is being stolen’: survivors plead for halt to dramas about Grenfell

Residents and members of bereaved families call on BBC and National Theatre to scrap productions

The Guardian - UK

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Grenfell fire: National Theatre play to tell survivors’ stories

Production is at centre of collaboration with west London community affected by the disaster

The Guardian - UK

‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage

The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud’s struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths

The Guardian - UK

A wordless death, a dazzling new talent and a 50-day squat: is Athens the hotbed of European theatre?

Thirty directors from all over Europe converged on Greece for a showcase of its fizzing new talent that even included a play about the Nazis by Tony Kushner. What did they learn on this five-day odyssey?

The Guardian - UK

Michael Rudman obituary

Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur Miller

The Guardian - UK

The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast: It’s a Sin’s Callum Scott Howells on Romeo and Julie at the National Theatre

Plus Guys & Dolls and Sleepova reviews!

Evening Standard

House of the Dragon’s Milly Alcock set to make West End debut in The Crucible

The Australian will star as Abigail in Lyndsey Turner’s National Theatre production

Evening Standard

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