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Cast & Crew

Sam Mendes
Director
Mark Gatiss
As Sir John Gielgud
Allan Corduner
As Hume Cronyn
Tuppence Middleton
As Elizabeth Taylor
Johnny Flynn
As Richard Burton
Luke Norris
As William Redfield
Janie Dee
As Eileen Herlie
Stephanie Siadatan
As Susannah Mason

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"The Motive and the Cue" delves into the behind-the-scenes tensions of a 1964 Broadway production of "Hamlet," where legendary actor Richard Burton, freshly married to Elizabeth Taylor, must navigate an experimentally-staged interpretation under the exacting direction of Sir John Gielgud. As rehearsals unfold, the collision of two theatrical eras and the fraught dynamic between actor and director threatens to derail the entire production.

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