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Playing With Fire (The Saturday Play)
Playing With Fire (The Saturday Play)
Oct 5, 2024 1:25 AM

Author:David Edgar,Emma Fielding,David Troughton,Full Cast

Playing With Fire (The Saturday Play)

Originally produced at the National Theatre in 2005, David Edgar's play is set against the background of a riot in the fictional northern town of Wyverdale, in the early part of the 21st century. In a revised version for radio, Edgar offers a powerful combination of political and personal drama. Starring Emma Fielding, David Troughton, Geoffrey Whitehead, Paul Bhattacharjee, Pal Aron, David Fleeshman, David Bannerman, Marian Kemmer, Fiona Clarke, Peter Meakin, Sam Dale, Graham Padden, Robert Lister, Susan Brown, Souad Faress, Bethan Walker. Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.

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The definitive account of a womaniser, drunk and brilliant actor, and his decades-long affair with Katharine Hepburn

—— Sunday Times

Curtis's biography weaves a fascinating, not to say definitive portrait of an individual both naively simple and immensely complex.

—— Mail on Sunday
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