In a brilliant bit of casting, the Handmaid’s Tale actor Joseph Fiennes will star as England manager Gareth Southgate in a new play at the National Theatre 👏
Coming to the prestigious production space in June, Dear England is ‘inspired by Southgate’s journey since his infamous penalty miss for England in 1996’, with an official release saying the play is a ‘gripping examination of both nation and game’.which he has found ‘epic and deeply moving’., said: ‘To tell this story of the national game on the stage of the National Theatre is just the greatest thrill, if an intimidating responsibility.
‘It’s been humming along in the background, but we’re only starting to really understand now Gareth’s gentle revolution.’ The fact that it is him who has since ‘broken the penalty curse’ for the English football team is something Graham describes as ‘Shakespearean’.
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