{"id":396,"date":"2011-10-07T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tonenoir.co.uk\/?p=396"},"modified":"2011-10-07T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:10:06","slug":"rowan-atkinson-to-return-to-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Atkinson to return to the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original story: BBC News.co.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rowan Atkinson is returning to the stage after the success of his role as Fagin in the West End musical Oliver!<\/p>\n

The Blackadder star told the BBC he would appear in a play in late 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love theatre, I hadn\u2019t done it for 20 years before I did Fagin and I was surprised how comfortable I felt on stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to do more and I think that\u2019s the next thing I do.\u201d He said he would appear in a \u201cfairly straight, straightforward\u201d stage play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original story: BBC News.co.uk Rowan Atkinson is returning to the stage after the success of his role as Fagin in the West End musical Oliver! The Blackadder star told the BBC he would appear in a play in late 2012. \u201cI love theatre, I hadn\u2019t done it for 20 years before I did Fagin and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TBn-6o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":503,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=503","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":0},"title":"Blackadder star Rowan Atkinson to star as Fagin in the West End","author":"admin","date":"26 March 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Rowan Atkinson is to star as Fagin in the forthcoming West End stage production of Oliver! 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