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National TheatreReviewLyttelton theatre, London
Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet
In 1964, John Gielgud directed a stripped-back Broadway production of Hamlet, performed as if it was a final rehearsal, with nothing to distract the audience from the play’s celebrity casting of Richard Burton.
In Jack Thorne’s dramatisation of the pair’s encounter, Mark Gatiss plays Gielgud, whose star is fading, and Johnny Flynn plays Burton, whose star wattage has shot off the scale after his recent marriage to Elizabeth Taylor (Tuppence Middleton). Read More...