Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary

Tilda Swinton’s performance marks 30 years since audiences last saw her tread the boards, meanwhile Gary Oldman will be in Krapp’s Last TapeTilda Swinton will return to the stage for the first time in more than 30 years as part of the Royal Court’s 70th anniversary programme in a reprisal of her 1988 one-woman performance in Manfred Karge’s Man to Man.Swinton’s return in the role where she plays a widow who takes on the identity of her deceased husband is one of two star names in David Byrne’s third season as artistic director, which also features Gary Oldman in another revival: Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape that was first performed in 1958. Continue reading...