News about Bruce Robinson

MARMION – PATRICK MARMION: Without question, Bruce Robinson's stage version of his bittersweet 1987 cult film is the show I'm looking forward to most in 2024. But can any actors come close to Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann as the down-at-heel sps looking for jobs at the end of the 1960s? And who dares fill the enormous trousers of Richard Griffiths' Uncle Monty? Thank God it's Robinson who wrote the book and comedy maestro Sean Foley directing. Pray that they retain the soundtrack, and wish luck to those charged with firing off some of the finest zingers ever ('We've gone on holiday by mistake!'

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE : The disappearance of British Museum artefacts has prompted the Royal Collection Trust, the world's biggest private collection of artworks, to conduct a discreet inventory. Although there is no evidence that anything is amiss, a source tells me that tracking more than one million items can be difficult. The King has a penchant for traveling with his favorite art. One courtier was taken aback to face Queen Victoria's drawings and a Flemish oil painting from the Collection in a Royal lavatory.

RICHARD E. GRANT: Honouring my wife's edict became my New Year's resolution and mantra. Joan's guiding pings across my cranium as I progress toward the canyon of grief. Joan died in September 2021 and, two months later, I returned to South Africa to visit my 90-year-old mother, whom I hadn't seen in any other way than via Skype. I was ecstatic to see her on such feisty form a 12-hour flight later. Still enjoying bridge, reading five novels a week, and preparing summaries for a book store. All the electricity has been mistakenly cut off by a plumber who cut the wrong pipe, and it has been off for two days, she says. I'm recommending that we book into a hotel nearby before the electricity is reconnected as her back-up generator has now run out.