West End Stars Need A Profile Before Landing Roles

Richard Armitage has guaranteed entertainers need to have fabricated a profile through TV work before being thrown in lead parts on the West End stage.

The on-screen character conceded he himself had settled on TV work at an opportune time his profession on the grounds that he felt that stage work was reliant on star throwing.

“It’s incredibly difficult to fill a theatre with material that isn’t Mamma Mia!,” he said, adding: “When they’re spending their hard-earned £85 for a theatre ticket, it’s got to have something to pull them in and whatever it takes to fill a house is what we do.”

Best known for parts in The Hobbit and BBC’s Spooks, Armitage clarified that he went into TV and film in light of the fact that he thought it would “bear the cost of [him] more chance to tackle more vital and greater parts in theater further down the line”.

Armitage was talking at the debut screening of the Old Vic’s coordinated effort with Digital Theater on The Crucible, in which he featured not long ago.

Recorded amid the play’s run, the screenings will now be indicated at silver screens the nation over on December 4 and 7.

“I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film so it’s great to come back to theatre,” he included.

The Crucible was steered by Yael Farber, who said that the knowledge of taping one of her plays “may be the start of an association with film” for her.

“I have been a monk of the theatre all my life and I don’t even dare flirt with film, but this was a remarkable first engagement…However I do think it has to be carefully managed so that it doesn’t become some kind of replacement of the live transmission,” concluded.