Actor will perform two tales with a musical theme featuring characters confronting their mortality with defiance
A pair of Julian Barnes stories about old age are to be performed by Ian McDiarmid in a one-man show touring the UK this autumn.
Michael Grandage will direct The Lemon Table, which adapts two tales with a musical theme from Barnes’s 2004 story collection of the same name. In Vigilance, a concertgoer is driven into a fury by the fidgeting, rustling and vigorous throat-clearing of his fellow audience members. In The Silence, an unnamed composer modelled on Sibelius reflects on his career and how silence follows both music and life.
The Lemon Table opens at Salisbury Playhouse (part of Wiltshire Creative) in October and tours to Sheffield Theatres, Yvonne Arnaud theatre in Guildford, Home in Manchester and Malvern Theatres.
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