A variety of Peter Barnes monologues will be brought to online audiences.
Produced by Original Theatre Company and Perfectly Normal Productions, the four-part series will star Jon Culshaw, Matthew Kelly, Jemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough with direction from Philip Franks and Charlotte Peters.
Available online from 18 February to 31 July, the monologues will be filmed at Theatre Royal Windsor before being made available.
Peters will direct Culshaw in
Billy & Me, while Franks will direct the three other monologues, including a brand-new Barnes piece
True Born Englishman, delivered by Scarborough.
Co-producer David Morley said: All our monologues are from Peter Barnes s work commissioned by BBC Radio 3.
It was nice while it lasted
Windsor s Theatre Royal has abandoned all hopes of continuing the run of its pantomine Cinderella this season. Prime Minister Boris Johnson s press conference this afternoon has made it clear that Windsor and Maidenhead will remain in Tier 4, as more areas of Britain previously spared have also been added to the lockdown list and secondary schools have had term delayed for two weeks. Cinderella had its run interrupted the Saturday before Christmas when Windsor was first placed in Tier 4. Now all possible remaining performances of the 82nd Windsor panto have been formally cancelled. A joint statement by theatre co-directors Jon and Anne-Marie Woodley has been released, saying: “We are deeply saddened that our much-loved annual pantomime that has run each year for over 82 years, is not able to complete any further scheduled performances. For many families this is a massive annual tradition and even more so at the end of what has already been