As Falstaff, the 85-year-old actor sustains Robert Icke's challenging new four-hour adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts One and Two
It is a vanishingly rare occurrence for a lengthy adaptation of two Shakespeare history plays to open directly into the West End, without the safety net of a run in a subsidised theatre first.
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