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Dateline: 30th September, 2005

West End Revival for Bolt Classic

Robert Bolt's 1960 classic play A Man for All Seasons is to return to the West End. It opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 3rd January 2006 (previews from 21st December) and is booking initially to 8th April. Directed by Michael Rudman, designed by Paul Farnsworth, lighting by Nick Richings and produced by Bill Kenwright, it will star Martin Shaw as Sir Thomas More, and the cast includes Paul Shelley as Norfolk, Daniel Flynn as Henry VIII, Brian Poyser as Cardinal Wolsey, Tim Frances as Cranmer, Alison Fiske as More's wife Alice and Sophie Shaw as his wife Margaret.

The original 1960 production was at the Globe Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, now the Gielgud, and starred Paul Scofield who went on to win a Tony for the Broadway priduction and an Oscar for the 1966 film.

Prior to the West End, it will tour to:

• 5th Oct to 8th Oct
  Theatre Royal, Windsor
• 10th Oct to 15th Oct
  New Theatre, Cardiff
• 17th Oct to 22nd Oct
  Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
• 24th Oct to 29th Oct
  Richmond Theatre, London
• 31st Oct to 5th Nov
  Malvern Theatres, Malvern
• 7th Nov to 12th Nov
  Mayflower, Southampton
• 14th Nov to 19th Nov
  Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
• 28th Nov to 3rd Dec
  Theatre Royal, Nottingham
• 5th Dec to 10th Dec
  Theatre Royal, Bath

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