REVIEW: The Interview, Park Theatre, London ✭✭✭✭
Jonathan Maitland’s new play, The Interview, at London’s Park Theatre explores issues around Martin Bashir’s controversial TV interview with Diana Princess of Wales
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Yolande Kettle to play Princess Diana in The Interview at Park Theatre
Yolande Kettle plays Princess Diana in Jonathan Maitland’s play The Interview at the Park Theatre, London.
The Last Temptation Of Boris Johnson Tour
The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson UK Tour will see Jonathan Maitland’s new political comedy start at the Festival Theatre Malvern in January 2020 starring Will Barton.
McGowan To Play Jimmy Savile At Park Theatre
Drawing on material from interviews, tv shows and transcripts, Jonathan Maitland’s An Audience With Jimmy Saville explores the most shocking sex scandal of our time. Writer Jonathan Maitland, whose acclaimed debut play Dead Sheep about Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe recently broke Park Theatre box office records, explains, “An Audience with Jimmy Savile is a drama based on real events. It uses material from multiple sources including books, transcripts of police interviews, witness statements and several official inquiries. It also uses testimony from face-to-face interviews given to me by survivors of abuse. Some scenes involving Jimmy Savile have been created but they use actual and paraphrased quotes from him over a period of 60 years. Whilst researching this play I have met and worked with groups such as NAPAC (a leading charity for adults abused in childhood) Phil’s Petition and Slater and Gordon (the Law firm representing more than 160 … Read more
