The manufacturing explores the real-life story of Charles Ingram, aka the Coughing Main, who conned the world’s hottest TV quiz present, ‘Who Desires to Be a Millionaire’ out of £1,000,000. Or did he?
Nominated for 2 Olivier Awards together with Finest New Comedy, James Graham’s smash hit play, Quiz, transferred to London’s West Finish with sensational critiques in 2018, following a sold-out run at Chichester Competition Theatre. And in 2020, tens of millions tuned in to see the three-part ITV adaptation starring Michael Sheen, Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford.
Quiz now returns to Chichester Competition Theatre earlier than embarking on a 9-week UK tour and from the seventeenth – twenty first October, and you’ll catch it on the New Theatre Cardiff.
Rory is ‘a one-man opposition occasion’ (Day by day Telegraph). As a mimic, he’s offered definitive impersonations of PMs and Presidents from Main, Blair, Cameron and Brown, to Clinton, Bush and Trump. As himself, he’s been a presenter, author, quiz-show host, actor, translator and even (briefly) ballroom dancer (Strictly Come Dancing, 2011).
Rory Bremner says “I’m very enthusiastic about this; not simply the problem of taking part in Chris Tarrant in lengthy type however bringing the scandal that basically caught the general public’s creativeness to a reside viewers each night time. What actually occurred? The jury’s out- and this time it’s you!
I didn’t must phone-a-friend. It wasn’t even 50/50. This was a task I needed to tackle, with A: a superb director; B: a terrific script; C: a distinct viewers reside every night time; and D: a narrative that divides opinion to today. Remaining reply? Ask the viewers!”
September 2001: The nation is gripped by a scandal that continues to be, to today, a thriller.
In an outrageously audacious heist, Charles Ingram, aka the Coughing Main, and his accomplices duped the world’s hottest TV quiz present, Who Desires to Be a Millionaire, out of £1,000,000. Or did they? And in the event that they did cheat, how did they actually do it?
Uncovering new proof, it’s time to ask you, the viewers, to place fingers on keypads and reply the final word 50/50: responsible or not responsible?
17- 21 Oct
New Theatre Cardiff
Park Pl, Cardiff CF10 3LN
0343 310 0041