He writes for Doctor Who and Sherlock " now Mark Gatiss is starring as Charles I on stage. He talks to Mark Lawson about overreaching royals, bad auditions and why he's the man to play Jeremy HuntAself-confessed "civil war nut", Mark Gatiss was desperate to play Charles I in 55 Days, a new drama about the trial and execution of the monarch by Oliver Cromwell's revolutionaries. But he was heavily committed when&n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PM on October 21, 2012