“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

In 1964 John Gielgud directed Richard Burton on stage as Hamlet. Gielgud was a plummy, grand old actor of immense distinction. Burton was a boozy Welsh boyo superstar with a new wife – Liz ...

The National’s Lyttelton Theatre transforms into a church-like rehearsal space (designed by Es Devlin) for The Motive and the Cue, the story of the making of Sir John Gielgud’s Broadway blockbuster ...

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.

You’ll get goosebumps watching The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre – it’s a side effect ... John Gielgud’s 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet, in which Richard Burton played the Dane. Mark ...