Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning When asked why he had never played Falstaff, Charles Laughton said: "We had to throw too many of his kind out of our family's hotel in Scarborough." Undeterred by such niceties, Ian McKellen will shortly be taking on the "fat knight" in Player Kings, Robert Icke's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM on January 18, 2024