Play based on the beloved 1987 comedy will open at Birmingham Rep next year directed by Sean Foley
It is one of British cinema’s most quotable comedies: a tale of destitute London actors “drifting into the arena of the unwell” who go on holiday by mistake to the Lake District. Now, the inebriated world of Withnail and I – complete with the notorious super-sized joint called the Camberwell carrot – is destined for the stage, adapted by the much-loved 1987 film’s writer-director, Bruce Robinson.
It was a question of: do I cry my eyes out at the situation I’m in or is it so ridiculous I may as well laugh? “I was sitting there with four quid a week National Assistance in Camden Town,” he said. “It was just so devastatingly awful, life then. It was a question of: do I want to cry my eyes out at the situation I’m in or is it so ridiculous I may as well laugh at it? That’s why I sat down and wrote the novel. I never thought it would go anywhere.”
Robinson had further roles in TV and film but said that the “only acting I’ve ever done that I really self-approved of was in a play”. That was a 1972 production at the Mermaid theatre in London of RC Sherriff’s classic Journey’s End, directed by Eric Thompson. “I did fringe theatre and bits and pieces all over the place but that was a proper part in a proper play,” he said.
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