Dave Johns, who played the lead role in 2016 film I, Daniel Blake, updates the story for the stage.
Actor Dave Johns, who played the lead role in Ken Loach's award-winning 2016 film I, Daniel Blake, is to update the story for its first stage version.
"I do feel it's needed even more than ever now for the position we find ourselves in, with austerity coming back and the cost of living rising and zero hours contracts and all that, and this is Daniel Blake for 2023." His theatre adaptation will open at Northern Stage in Newcastle next May before going on a UK tour. While he will write the script, he will not play the title role again, he said.Johns with director Loach and co-star Hayley Squires at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016
When theatres and comedy clubs shut during the pandemic and his work dried up, he almost had to apply for benefits himself, he revealed.
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