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Frank and Percy, starring Ian McKellen (Percy) and Roger Allam (Frank) and directed by Sean Mathias, will have a limited London season at The Other Palace.
Ben Weatherill’s new comedy, Frank and Percy, starring Ian McKellen (Percy) and Roger Allam (Frank) and directed by Sean Mathias, will have a limited London season at The Other Palace from Friday 8 September until Sunday 3 December.
In The Dig, a fictionalised real-life account adapted from a novel, Ralph Fiennes plays Basil Brown, a local excavator with a love for astronomy, who has a reserved outer shell. Replying when spoken to, Basil is a warm-hearted, unflinchingly loyal man of few words who is a genius excavator; his modesty doesn’t allow him to say he’s an archeologist. The real Basil had a mind for academics: he held diplomas with distinction for astronomy, geography and geology through correspondence courses; he had left school at the age of 12 to assist his father who was a tenant farmer (ie a farmer who re...
Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 05.53 EST Gemma Arterton was desperate as a teenager to leave her small home town in Kent to go and live in London. She remembers, in detail, the day she finally moved, driving up with her dad and her boxes, to stake her claim at independence and adulthood. âIt was a tiny flat in west London,â she says, her voice stripped of any hint of Gravesend. âMy room was like a wine cellar underneath the pavement â I could hear people walking above me â and it had mould all over it. But I was just so happy!â Her dad cried at leaving her â...