Participant Kings, tailored by Robert Icke from William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Components 1 and a pair of. Icke directs Ian McKellen as John Falstaff, with additional casting to be introduced.
The manufacturing runs on the Noël Coward Theatre (the place The Ocean on the Finish of the Lane has simply closed), 1 April – 22 June 2024, with previews at New Wimbledon Theatre, 1 March – 9 March 2024, and Manchester Opera Home, 14 – 23 March 2024.
A divided nation, management crumbling, corruption within the air. Welcome to England.
Hal wasn’t born to be king. Solely now, it appears, he will likely be. His father longs for him to depart behind his pals within the taverns of Eastcheap, most notably the notorious John Falstaff. Battle is on the horizon. However will Hal ever come good?
Bringing collectively Shakespeare’s two nice historical past performs (Henry IV, elements 1 and a pair of), Participant Kings will reign over London’s West Finish for twelve weeks solely – enjoying on the Noël Coward Theatre from April 2024.
Ian McKellen performs John Falstaff. He first acted at college and with novice teams within the north of England, the place he was born and introduced up. He studied English at Cambridge College and, since 1961, has labored continuous within the British theatre. He has been main man and produced performs, fashionable and basic, for the Royal Shakespeare Firm and the Nationwide Theatre of Nice Britain and within the West Finish of London.
He was within the first manufacturing of Martin Sherman’s sensational Bent and in premières of performs by Arnold Wesker, Peter Shaffer, Michael Frayn, Alan Ayckbourn, Mark Ravenhill and presently Ben Wetherill (Frank and Percy). Of late he has starred in Ready for Godot and No Man’s Land (with Patrick Stewart) and as Mom Goose in Jonathan Harvey’s pantomime. As Salieri in Amadeus he received each accessible award on Broadway.
In Shakespeare he has triumphed as Richard II, Macbeth (with Judi Dench), Coriolanus, Iago, Richard III (additionally on movie) and most lately as King Lear (twice) and as an 80 12 months outdated Hamlet in Sean Mathias’ upcoming movie. For over a decade, he toured his one-man present, Performing Shakespeare, at house and overseas.
McKellen is recognised worldwide as Magneto within the X-Males movies and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He acquired his first Academy Award® nomination, for Greatest Actor, because the homosexual movie director James Whale, in Invoice Condon’s 1998 basic Gods and Monsters. Since he has starred in The Da Vinci Code, Mr Holmes, Magnificence and the Beast, All is True, The Good Liar and The Critic.
