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Richard E Grant, the Swaziland-born actor who finally had his break nearly 20 years ago as a joint-toting unemployed actor more than partial to a drink in Withnail and I, is on good form.

His career has undulated between glittering highs and stygian lows but with Richard making his writing and directing debut next year with the release of the autobiographical film Wah-Wah and his current tour with Simon Gray’s acclaimed Otherwise Engaged, soon to come to Woking, he is definitely on a high.

“It’s very satisfying to play,” he said.

“I play a middle-aged guy who has apparently got everything in his life and he plans to spend a quiet evening in on his own listening to a new recording of an opera. Instead the world and his wife turn up and his life is put on its head.

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