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Source: What’s on Stage<\/a><\/p>\n

Rowan Atkinson will return to the West End early next year to play the title role in a revival of Simon Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms.<\/p>\n

Produced by Michael Codron and directed by Richard Eyre, it opens at Wyndham’s Theatre on 29 January 2013 (previews from 23 January) following runs at the The Theatre Royal Brighton (8 \u2013 12 January) and the Theatre Royal Bath (14 – 19 January).<\/p>\n

Set in the 1960s in an English language school for foreigners, Gray’s 1971 play is a humorous and poignant account of several years in the lives of seven teachers.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the group is St John Quartermaine (Atkinson) \u2013 kind, pleasant and agreeable, but utterly hopeless as a teacher. An almost permanent feature in the staff room, he’s always available to listen to the problems of his self-obsessed colleagues. But when a new Principal is appointed, Quartermaine\u2019s future looks precarious.<\/p>\n

Quartermaine\u2019s Terms will mark Rowan Atkinson\u2019s first appearance in a play for almost 25 years. He first appeared in the West End in 1981 in Rowan Atkinson in Revue, also produced by Michael Codron and subsequently in The New Revue, The Nerd, The Sneeze and most recently as Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh\u2019s revival of the musical Oliver!, for which he received a Whatsonstage.com Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: What’s on Stage Rowan Atkinson will return to the West End early next year to play the title role in a revival of Simon Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms. Produced by Michael Codron and directed by Richard Eyre, it opens at Wyndham’s Theatre on 29 January 2013 (previews from 23 January) following runs at the The […]<\/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":[17,23,27,57,67,70,83,87,92,103],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-bath","tag-blackadder","tag-brighton","tag-london","tag-play","tag-quartermaine","tag-rowan-atkinson","tag-simon-gray","tag-stage","tag-west-end"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54TBn-dy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":503,"url":"https:\/\/www.blackadderhall.com\/?p=503","url_meta":{"origin":840,"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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