Oscar, BAFTA, SAG, BIFA and Golden Globe awards winner Gary Oldman will return to his acting roots next year in an exclusive appearance at York Theatre Royal.
Now one of the biggest stars in world cinema, Oldman began his professional career at the Theatre Royal in 1979 and returns - for his first stage appearance since 1987 - in Samuel Beckett's one-act masterpiece Krapp's Last Tape (April 14-May 17). These will be Oldman's only appearances in the production, with no plans for a West End or Broadway transfer.
York Theatre Royal CEO Paul Crewes said: "Gary visited us at the beginning of the year and it was fascinating, hearing him recount stories of his time in his first professional role on our stage. When we started to explore ideas, we realised Krapp’s Last Tape was the perfect project.
"I'm very happy that audiences will have this unique opportunity to see Gary Oldman return to our stage.”
With tickets from £25, priority booking for the YTR Director’s Circle opens on November 6 at 1pm, followed by YTR Members priority booking from November 11 at 1pm. Public booking opens November 16 at 1pm.
Beckett's play is of course about looking back: each year on his birthday, Krapp records a new tape reflecting on the year gone by. On his 69th birthday, Krapp, now a lonely man, is ready with a bottle of wine, a banana and his tape recorder. Listening back to a recording he made as a young man, Krapp must face the hopes of his past self...
After graduating from a London drama college, young Oldman’s first job took him to York, where he played roles in a variety of shows, from Oliver Goldsmith’s Restoration comedy She Stoops To Conquer to Peter Nichols’ Privates on Parade, and the cat in the pantomime Dick Whittington.
His consequent career has won him just about every accolade and award a screen actor can win, in everything from record-breaking blockbusters to iconic characters. He is now recognised as one of the foremost cinema greats.
His many screen appearances include his 2018, Oscar and Bafta-winning role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, which also won him Golden Globe, SAG award and a Palm Desert award, among many others. He was also Sirius Black in the Harry Potter franchise, and Commissioner Gordon in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, among many othet glittering movies. Currently he stars in the hugely- acclaimed, award-nominared Apple TV+ series, Slow Horses.
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