Photos: First Look At The UK National Tour of QUIZ
Production images have been released for Quiz, on a UK Tour this autumn, starring renowned comedian, Rory Bremner, as Chris Tarrant, and Emmerdale star Charley Webb, in her first professional stage role as Diana Ingram.
Further Cast Revealed For UK Tour Of James Graham's QUIZ
Joining renowned comedian, Rory Bremner, starring as Chris Tarrant in the critically acclaimed play Quiz, is Emmerdale star Charley Webb, in her first professional stage role and recently on screens in Better (BBC). Learn more about the cast here!
Rory Bremner Will Lead James Graham's QUIZ on UK Tour
Rory Bremner, Britain's top satirical impressionist and renowned comedian, stars as Chris Tarrant in James Graham's thrilling and provocative drama, Quiz. The production explores the real-life story of Charles Ingram, aka the Coughing Major, who conned the world's most popular TV quiz show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire out of £1,000,000. Or did he?
BWW Review: QUIZ, ITV
At its height in the late 90s, Who Wants to be a Millionaire was must-see television. Hosted by Chris Tarrant, the show premiered in 1998 and was an overnight ratings sensation. After an unwavering run of success, controversy reared its head in 2001. Major Charles Ingram bagged the big prize, only to later be exposed as a cheat thanks to an accomplice who coughed to signal each correct answer. The show's life went on, but in many ways its once bright light had been irrevocably dimmed.
Casting Announced For James Graham's SKETCHING At Wilton's Music Hall
Nav Sidhu (How I Live Now, The Kumars, Gangs of Tooting Broadway), Penny Layden (RSC, National Theatre, Call the Midwife), Samuel James (Birds of a Feather, National Theatre's Twelfth Night, Bryony Lavery's Stockholm), Sean Michael Verey (Pramface, Radiant Vermin, Tonight with Donny Styxx) and Sophie Wu (Fresh Meat, Kick Ass, Black Mirror) will star in James Graham's Sketching, playing at Wilton's Music Hall from Wednesday 26 September - Saturday 27 October, with a press night on Tuesday 2 October.
Writers Selected to Work on James Graham's SKETCHING
Taking inspiration from Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens' first novel which chronicled all walks of Victorian London Life James Graham's SKETCHING will play at Wilton's Music Hall from Wednesday 26 September - Saturday 27 October, with a press night on Tuesday 2 October.
BWW Review: QUIZ, Noel Coward Theatre
By any standard, playwright James Graham is having quite a week. Labour of Love won Best New Comedy and Bertie Carvel won Best Supporting Actor for Ink at last weekend's Olivier Awards, and Tuesday saw the West End opening of Graham's latest play Quiz, which recounts the tale of the man who won the top prize on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? but was found guilty of cheating.
TINA Leads April's Top 10 New London Shows
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