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January 28, 2013, 10:24 am -- /EPR NETWORK/ -- Mr Bean and Jonny English star Rowan Atkinson is to return to the London stage with a role in Quartermaine's Terms, a tragicomic play written by Simon Gray.
Set in a 1960s English language school, it tells a moving account of several years in the lives of a seven teachers, with the main focus on St John Quartermaine, an agreeable but hopeless teacher played by Atkinson, whose rubbery features and physical comedy have oft made him a favourite pathetic comic hero.
According to LondonTown.com, the quintessentially British drama takes a comical yet serious view at the teachers' stories and their tendency to treat Quartermaine as an agony uncle. However, despite being part of the furniture, his job is put under threat after the arrival of a new school Principal.
Wyndhams Theatre, Soho, is one of the West End's best-loved theatre spaces. Located on Charing Cross Road, it was opened on 16 th November 1899. More recently it was home to the hugely acclaimed West End run of Alan Bennet's The History Boys.
West End theatre fans and Rowan Atkinson followers can look up great deals on hotels in London through LondonTown.com, the number one website for London, which sources great info and ideas on events, accommodation and eating and drinking.
During the run of Quartermaine's Terms , from 23 rd January to 13 th April, there are many bargains to be had on West End hotels. Stay a short walk from the Wyndhams on the first weekend of February, with doubles at the 4* Trafalgar Hotel at £138 a discount of 76%.
Or go 5* for £183 for a double, just a stone's throw from the theatre, at the Hampshire Radisson Blu Edwardian, located right on the corner of Leicester Square and Charing Cross Road.
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