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EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Fiennes has scored a winner with playwright James Graham’s knockout stage play Dear England, which will transfer from London’s National Theatre to the West End in the fall.
The play is an uplifting dramatization of Gareth Southgate’s inspirational leadership of the England’s men’s soccer team and has garnered strong reviews.
Dear England will run at the Cameron Mackintosh-owned Prince Edward Theatre in Soho, London for a 14-week season from October 9. National Theatre Productions is producing.
Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale, American Horror Story) will transfer with the drama. He has been praised for capturing Southgate’s determination to reignite the England team’s pride, plus the sense that the bloke’s a darn good egg. England stars such as captain Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling are also played in the show by actors.
The show, directed with joyful verve by Rupert Goold (Judy), also recounts the bittersweet decades since the England lads enjoyed a moment of sheer glory, when the country won the World Cup against Germany in 1966 on home turf at Wembley.
Dear England has performed to capacity crowds on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage since its June 20 opening.
“I really hoped it would become a cross-over play,” Graham told me, meaning that it would bring in “loads of lads in their football shirts” along with regular theater-goers.
Figures released to Deadline by the National Theatre show that close to 75,000 people have seen the play since its June 20 opening. It’s another in a long line of recent hits for Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Others include The Motive and the Cue and Standing at the Sky’s Edge, both of which have announced transfers to the West End.
Dear England’s eight-week run
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