I'm Sorry, Prime Minister stars a grizzled Griff Rhys Jones as the doddery ex-PM Jim Hacker, alongside the exquisite Clive Francis as Sir Humphrey Appleby, his former senior civil servant.
It must surely be an emotionally intense experience for her to be starring in the revival of a play by her former partner, Tom Stoppard, who sadly died just last month.
PATRICK MARMION: It was surely only a matter of time before Stephen Fry should take to the stage as one of Oscar Wilde's most colourful characters, Lady Bracknell.
A GREAT actor can make us care about almost anybody. But Lily Allen, in her latest stage venture at Bath's tiny Ustinov Studio, has to cope with one of the dodgiest characters in all of drama.