Shomit Dutta’s production of Stumped, directed by Guy Unsworth, explores the friendship between the two playwrights and has begun a string of performances at Theatre Royal Bath, before it moves to Cambridge Arts Theatre in June and Hampstead Theatre in July. Tompkinson has now begun touring with the Original Theatre company starring as Nobel prize winner and playwright Samuel Beckett opposite Andrew Lancel, who plays fellow Nobel prize winner and playwright Harold Pinter.īeckett, who is best known for Waiting For Godot, was a cricketer before he became a playwright, while Pinter described the sport as “the greatest thing that God created on Earth”. Stephen Tompkinson as Samuel Beckett and Andrew Lancel as Harold Pinter in Stumped (Pamela Raith/PA) The 57-year-old was cleared by a jury of inflicting GBH earlier this month at Newcastle Crown Court. The DCI Banks star was accused of punching a drunk man in the head, who fell to the ground and broke his skull, after finding him and a friend drinking and making noise at the bottom of his driveway in the early hours of May 30 2021. Stephen Tompkinson has begun touring the stage premiere of new play Stumped, weeks after a jury cleared him of inflicting grievous bodily harm.
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