#Royal Court Theatre

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Phil in Oli Forsyth's BRACE BRACE. 📷 Helen Murray (x)

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First look at Bluets at the Royal Court Theatre

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Domhnall as Matt in Now or Later, 2008

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Wow.

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Saskia Reeves in A Disappearing Number (above) and The Mistress Contract (below).

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Peter O'Toole

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) / still * caption: For "Lawrence of Arabia," a Columbia film, he had to learn to ride a camel and before the film was finished he had ridden about 5, 000 miles!

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* article: "If I'm going to play Lawrence, I've got to ride like him," O'Toole said. By that time the film was finished he had spent over 1,000 hours on a camel's back and covered some 5,000 miles. Of his acting career he says; "I love films. I love the stage. I love acting. I know I'm only a beginner still, and that you go on learning whole time. It's the life for me."

The Long and the Short and the Tall photo by John Cowan * caption: STAGE This was Peter as Private Bamforth in the play " The Long and the Short and the Tall" produced at London's Royal Court Theatre. His acting in this part, said the critics, had real "star quality."

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) * caption: SCREEN A producer was looking for someone to take the part of Lawrence of Arabia in the film, and when he saw Peter O'Toole as the young Guards officer in "The Day They Robbed the Bank of England" he knew that here was the man to do it.

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Mustache Monday: Ben and Sophie in Rehearsals for Haunted Child at the Royal Court Theatre, London UK (2011).

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'Great Scott! Can the actor known as Fleabag's Hot Priest shift to playing several melancholy mopers? Count on the irresistible Andrew Scott to fire up Vanya, a one-man take on Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya beginning in March 2025 off Broadway.

A hit in 2023 in London, the show marks Scott’s return to the New York stage after nearly two decades. He made his 2006 debut on Broadway opposite Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy in The Vertical Hour.

Since then, Scott’s screen roles in Fleabag, Sherlock, All of Us Strangers, and Ripley have amped up the Irish actor’s star status. All the while, Scott has worked steadily on stage in London, where he started out in the early 1990s and has since won two Olivier Awards.

Get to know more about Scott’s standout stage roles, then be sure to see him play the title role (and all the other characters) in Vanya at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Get Vanya tickets now.

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Scott’s stage roots are, in a way, based in New York – specifically Brooklyn, where Neil Simon’s 1983 dramedy is set. In a 1992 production in Dublin, Scott played Stanley Jerome, a supportive older brother who provides a bit of humor amid family struggles.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In a 1996 staging of Luigi Pirandello’s absurdist drama, Scott was back in family mode in the role of an aloof son. The show was presented at the Abbey Theatre, where Scott appeared the same year in The Marriage of Figaro and A Woman of No Importance.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

In Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical drama about a family’s harrowing struggle with illness, addiction, and emotional turmoil, Scott played the sickly, introspective son, Edmund. For his performance in this 1998 staging at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Scott was named actor of the year at the Sunday Independent Spirit of Line Arts Awards.

Dublin Carol

Scott made his London stage debut in 2000 at the Royal Court Theatre in Conor McPherson’s moody yuletide drama. Scott played Mark, a young man searching for his place in life, alongside Brian Cox as a forlorn funeral director.

The Irish Times praised Scott for bringing the “hopefully innocent Mark” to life. Scott returned to the Royal Court in 2006 for McPherson’s grief-themed Dying City and in 2009 for Mike Bartlett’s emotionally charged Cock.

A Girl in a Car with a Man

Rob Evans’s unsettling play revolves around the abduction of a girl captured on closed-circuit TV video. For his role as gay narcissist Alex in a 2004 staging at the Royal Court, Scott won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre.

The Vertical Hour

In 2006, Scott made his Broadway debut in director Sam Mendes’s staging of David Hare’s drama about a former war correspondent (Julianne Moore) confronting her past and the men in her life – fiancé Phillip (Scott) and his father, Oliver (Bill Nighy). The New York Times critic praised Scott’s “touching vulnerability.”

Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Emmy Award-winning series began as a 2013 one-woman play. Scott's character of a foxy pastor, and the title character's unholy obsession, first appeared in the TV adaptation.

Still, we'd be remiss not to include Fleabag here. There’s a fan-favorite moment in the second season when Fleabag speaks to the audience by looking directly into the camera. The priest sees her do it, asking, “Where’d you just go?” It's a theatrical moment — breaking the fourth wall at its deepest and finest.

Hamlet

To be or not to be… the lead role in this Shakespeare classic? In 2017, Scott stepped up as the dour Hamlet in a production directed by Robert Icke that began at the Almeida Theatre and transferred to London's West End. London Theatre praised Scott, who was nominated for an Olivier Award, for his “boyishly youthful demeanor” in the demanding part.

Present Laughter

Noël Coward becomes him. Scott played the charismatic, if self-absorbed, actor Garry Essendine in this 2019 revival at the Old Vic. London Theatre's critic wrote: “A magnetic Scott delivers again.” The star turn won Scott an Olivier Award. In his acceptance speech, Scott said Coward “put forth so many brave and progressive ideas through comedy.”

Nine years earlier at the same theatre, Scott starred in Coward’s Design for Living, a comedy about a complicated three-way relationship.

Vanya

This acclaimed solo adaptation of Uncle Vanya by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) arrives off Broadway following its acclaimed 2023 London run. The show, filmed live in the West End, features Scott playing multiple roles, each of them bedeviled by regret. In a five-star review, London Theatre called Scott's performance "a truly remarkable theatrical feat" — so be sure to experience it for yourself.

Get Vanya tickets now.'

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Giant, Royal Court Theatre (Preview)

In 1983 Roald Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton’s picture book God Cried about the 1982 Lebanon War. In the review Dahl says of the Israelis “Never before in the history of man has a race of people switched so rapidly from being much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers” Mark Rosenblatt’s debut play is inspired by the fall out from that review and the beginning of Dahl’s reputation as an…

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John Lithgow to play Roald Dahl in play about the author

John Lithgow is heading back to the UK to star in a new play about the life of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl. Continue reading John Lithgow to play Roald Dahl in play about the author

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Photos from Thomas Flynn's IG story yesterday + his shout-out for Laurie Kynaston's new comedy play "Mates in Chelsea" at the Royal Court Theatre. Info on the play: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxvBOXQoa8m/?img_index=5

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Phil Dunster in Oli Forsyth's BRACE BRACE. 📷 Helen Murray (x)

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Bluets... I am not actually sure what I have seen, it's not like any other play out there. The actors all playing the same character start sentences only for one of the other to take over, each one stands in front of a screen with different backgrounds on it (bathroom, pool, hospital, driving in a car, the tube), and then one of these is projected into a big screen above the stage, as two of the other casts are talking. So you look at the screen, then the actor, and then also at the other two and this switches constantly for 80 minutes. Dont think my attention could stretch beyond that. Don't think I will be reaching for the book, but it was a fantastic experience to see live.

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“Now or later”, London 2008

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Eddie Fortune is 'Single' (and a little bit gay)

Live at the Liverpool Royal Court Studio, February 2023.

THE VENUE:

The Studio at the Royal Court is a basement venue with a stage at one end, banked seating at the back, and to each side of the room, and space on the floor for tables and chairs. It's a really nice, simple, venue and is great for a stand up comedy evening. Having seen Eddie perform here I think it's easy to see that it was a perfect venue for him and his solo show.

SUPPORT ACTS:

Danny Davies: did a short set about the reasons he had to stop smoking weed. Overall he was really funny. One particular section about his fear of robots and his dog 'talking' to him had me laughing out loud. I don't know how long he's been doing stand up but I can see a pretty solid future ahead of him. I'd happily watch him again.

Adam Rohan: is a flamboyant gay comedian, which runs right through the centre of his comedy. It may just be me, as I heard others laughing more than I did, but I did find Danny the funnier of the two support acts. Adam is a potential star though, I think. The building materials are definitely there, and I think if I see him again in a year or so I'll be laughing my ass off.

THE MAIN SHOW.

Eddie came on stage in Whitney Houston t-shirt. He was sweating and the t-shirt was damp and he made a Whitney in the bath joke. I don't say this as a bad thing because it was fucking hilarious. I tell you this to give you an idea of how Eddie works. He has a lot of levels in his performance and the Whitney joke was a great test of the audience, to see where they stood humourwise. Thankfully we all reacted really well. It was a healthy start to the set.

The audience was a pretty handy crowd for the majority of the gig, though some of them did get a bit chatty in the last few minutes. Overall though it was a solid bunch. They reacted in ways Eddie did not expect at times. The biggest reaction that surprised him was when he was talking about one of his partners and referred to his 'leather cheerio'. Everyone got it and everyone was laughing hard. It almost threw him for a minute as he really hadn't seen that reaction coming.

He pulled it back and rallied on, giving me one of the funniest nights out I have had in a long time. My personal favourite part was the Karen Erotic Novel excerpt he had written. He read it out after describing a woman he had run into on a train. He started reading it, and it seemed as though every single person in that room knew where it was going. The vividness of the descriptions in what he read show that he is actually a pretty fine master of the written word, even if the subject matter is the smallest bit weirdly, and disturbingly, arousing.

His performance flows really well, pausing only to talk down any hecklers that might try to interrupt. Thankfully there weren't too many of them. But this is a part of what makes his stage presence work so well. His interactions with the audience are really personal, and funny as fuck. There was one crack about older guys driving a blue Ford focus, and one guy in the audience did. Throughout the show Eddie slipped in the ford focus occasionally, and each time locked eyes with the guy in the audience. It was a really nice touch.

This is my first time reviewing a live gig and I know there's things I've missed, or moments I've forgotten, but my style will improve the more of these I do. Overall Eddie is a bloody good comedian. He's funny, self-deprecating, outrageous, flamboyant but, most importantly, he is a likeable guy, and you feel like you get to know him really well when you listen to his jokes and stories. If you've ever seen him perform you'll know, and if you haven't then you should.

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Peter O'Toole and Christopher Logue Royal Court Theatre photo by Lewis Morley (Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia Kennedy)

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