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Casting announced for National Theatre's verbatim piece on Trump

”All the President’s Men?” will look at President Donald Trump’s cabinet

Sinéad Cusack, Donald Trump and Siân Phillips
Sinéad Cusack, Donald Trump and Siân Phillips
© Dan Wooler for WhatsOnStage (left/right), Gage Skidmore (Trump)

Casting has been announced for All The President's Men?, the National Theatre's new verbatim piece on President Trump's cabinet.

Edited and directed by Nicolas Kent, the piece takes scenes from the Senate's confirmation hearings of Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Dr Tom Price and Scott Pruitt.

The cast for the one-off reading at the Vaudeville next week includes Siân Phillips (Cabaret), Sinéad Cusack (Rock 'n' Roll ) and Peter Davison (Doctor Who).

Joining them will be Allan Corduner, Daniel Betts, Nathan Osgood, James Woolley, Sarah Lam, Phil Davis, Allan Corduner, Demetri Goritsas, Matthew Marsh, David Calder, Simon Chandler, Joseph Balderrama, Michael Landes and Tim Woodward.

All the President's Men? shares its title with the the 1974 book about two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal, and is presented by the National and The Public Theater, New York.

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All The President's Men runs at the Vaudeville Theatre on 24 April.