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masterofmystery · #1 (**permalink**) 06-15-2012, 02:01 AM

Daniel Radcliffe's next stage role will be back in London's West End, where he will star in the 12-week production of The Cripple Of Inishmaan from 8 June - 31 August 2013. More information on the former Harry Potter actor's next stage role, as well as a place to purchase tickets, can be found here. The play will be featured at the Noel Coward Theatre.

This will be one of many productions by director Michael Grandage, who will be helming several short-run plays for his new West End theatre company beginning this winter and throughout 2013, said the Daily Mail. A preview of the five productions, starring the likes of Dame Judi Dench and Jude Law, can be seen here.

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Cripple Billy, orphaned since birth, just might have found a way off the Isle of Aran and a route all the way to Hollywood if he can persuade a small community of Islanders how much he wants to realise his dream.

Martin McDonagh’s comic masterpiece examines an ordinary coming of age in extraordinary circumstances and confirms his position as one of the most original Irish voices to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. Daniel Radcliffe plays the title role in the first major London revival since its premiere at the National Theatre in 1996.

More about the play and Dan's decision to take on the role, from the Mail, can be read here.

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Set in 1934, it is about a young man with a withered hand and foot who lives off the west coast of Ireland, and is known by the locals as ‘Cripple Billy’.

‘It’s got pathos, heartbreak — and it’s very funny,’ said Daniel.

On the neighbouring Isle of Arran, an American film-maker is shooting a documentary and Billy feels this is his chance to escape.

‘A young boy desperate to be in film . . . I can relate to that,’ Daniel laughed.

‘I’ve been desperate to find something to come back to London with,’ he said, adding that he and Michael Grandage engaged in a series of discussions while they were working in New York.