Hugh Bonneville, Miranda Hart, Julie Walters and Patrick Stewart Star in THE MOUSETRAP Charity Performance, Nov 18 (BROADWAY WORLD)

According to the Daily Mail, Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville, Call The Midwife's Miranda Hart, and stage and film stars Julie Walters and Patrick Stewart will take part in a fundraising performance of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap this Sunday, November 18, at the St. Martin's Theatre.

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The headlining actors will be joined by Tamsin Greig, Nicholas Farrell, Iain Glen and Harry Lloyd. The Mousetrap will be directed by Phyllida Lloyd to raise funds for the theatre education charity Mousetrap Theatre.

Mathew Prichard, Agatha Christie's grandson, owns the rights to The Mousetrap. He and producer Stephen Waley-Cohen are set to reveal a memorial to Christie at St. Martin's cross.

Hugh Bonneville spent seven seasons with The National Theatre, appearing in School For Wives, Yerma, Entertaining Strangers, Juno and the Paycock, The School for Scandal and The Devil's Disciple. He then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and his credits there include Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Alchemist, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Virtuso, Amphibians and Hamlet (alongside Kenneth Branagh). Bonneville has also worked on projects for the Donmar Warehouse, The Old Vic and more. Current star of the television drama Downton Abbey, Bonneville has also appeared in The Cazalets, Take a Girl Like You, Armadillo, Daniel Deronda, The Commander, The Gathering Storm, Love Again, Doctor Who and more. His film credits include Notting Hill, Mansfield Park, Shanghai, Iris, French Film and many more.

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Danny Boyle: Benedict Cumberbatch is "one of the leading actors in the world" And the Frankenstein director gives Sherlock fans a new mystery to solve... (RADIO TIMES)

Jack Seale
 8:30 PM, 09 April 2012

 The film and theatre director Danny Boyle has sung the praises of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, calling the 35-year-old actor "extraordinary" and "one of the leading actors in the world". Boyle directed Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller last year in Frankenstein at the National Theatre.

Their alternating roles as Dr Frankenstein and his terrifying creature have earned them a joint nomination for Best Actor at the 2012 Olivier Awards, the winners of which will be announced this Sunday, 15 April, at the Royal Opera House in London.

 Talking to Radio Times for the new issue's Olivier Awards picture special, Boyle recalled the casting of Cumberbatch – who had just been seen on BBC1 in the first series of Sherlock – in the play. "I didn’t really know him as a stage actor," Boyle said.

"I knew what a fine screen actor he is. But there's a physicality involved in the theatre. It's not just about mannerisms or impersonation, which screen often is: it's about sustaining a narrative with mind and body. When I saw him for Frankenstein, that was the only thing I wanted to know. Did he have that physical capacity? And of course he does.

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