“What’s interesting is that Burton is getting it wrong, sort of on purpose, trying to show Gielgud that it must be modern,” said Flynn, who lived as a teenager in Wales, where Burton is a ...

History tells us that Gielgud’s long-running production broke box-office records, but Burton’s Hamlet did not go on to become definitive. Based on two books by members of the company ...

And yet for long periods in The Motive and the Cue, the hope of arriving at that ... Gielgud’s 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet with Burton as the Danish prince. Burton, at 38, is a screen ...

“In a time when the world was much less connected, they were like gods,” said Mark Gatiss, who stars in “The Motive and the Cue,” a hit play about Taylor and Burton in their 1960s heyday.

A new play by Jack Thorne, The Motive and the Cue, will open in the National ... with Sir John Gielgud directing Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, as Hamlet.

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has picked Johnny Flynn (Emma, Beast), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey, Mank) and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss to portray legendary stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and John ...

Next week The Motive and the Cue, written by Jack Thorne and starring Johnny Flynn as Burton, Mark Gatiss as Gielgud and Tuppence Middleton as Elizabeth Taylor, opens at the National Theatre.

The production was considered a commercial success, in part due to the celebrity nature of Richard Burton and his recent marriage to Elizabeth Taylor during the show's out-of-town Toronto tryout.