David Hare on Richard Griffiths: Effortlessly breezy, impenetrably dark by David Hare

One of the most winning aspects of the Almeida theatre, as run in the 1990s by a couple of actors, Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid, was their determination to take up the cause of certain fellow players whom they knew to be undervalued. If Richard Griffiths was one of the most conspicuous beneficiaries of this policy, then, my goodness, he paid back their artistic largesse 50-fold.He and I worked together first when …

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