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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:05 pm Post subject: Omid to star in Joe Orton farce |
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What The Butler Saw in West End
| Quote: | Omid Djalili is to star in a new West End production of Joe Orton’s comedy What the Butler Saw.
The comic, who has just completed a major stand-up tour, will take to the stage of London’s Vaudeville Theatre from May 4.
Djalili plays Dr Rance, a government inspector who calls at a psychiatric clinic just as sexual farce is being played out.
It is being directed by Sean Foley, whose credits include the Morecambe and Wise tribute The Play What I Wrote, and produced by the same company behind the 2009 revival of Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane, starring Mathew Horne.
What The Butler Saw, Orton’s last play, was completed a month before his 1967 death and first staged in London at the Queen’s Theatre in 1969 – when Ralph Richardson took the role of Dr Rance.
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http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/02/27/14930/omid_to_star_in_joe_orton_farce
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