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David Walliams Keen for West End Return???

Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff

| London's West End |

5 November 2010

It looks like funnyman David Walliams is eyeing a return to the West End stage, following his 2008 debut in No Man’s Land. He told the Evening Standard recently, “I got a real kick out of working with Michael Gambon … Harold Pinter died during the time we were running. It was an incredible interlude in my life, where I was performing with one of the world’s greatest actors who I’ve admired since I was a child, and meeting the world’s greatest living (at the time) playwright. So it was like, ‘How did that happen?’ I’d love to do a play again and learn.”

And the Little Britain star has already made a wish list of potential co-stars: “I went to see Simon Russell Beale the other night in Deathtrap. If I got the chance to work with someone like him or Derek Jacobi or Judi Dench or Maggie Smith…” Watch this space!

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