Modern classic Doubt on the Chichester stage

Monica Dolan, who stars alongside Sam Spruell, is delighted at the thought of it.

“Last year I think I had got as far as having a dialect session and that was all. But I’d done my own work. I had been given some exercises to go through the text and I’d done quite a bit of that so of course it was disappointing when it was all postponed but I think of the mentality that I got myself in. I had experienced a lot of disappointments. It’s theatre and it was upsetting but you have to get it into perspective in terms of everything else that was happening in the world. And I did other things instead that were very exciting.

“I was in the Talking Heads on TV, the new versions. and I was in one that had never been performed before. The head of drama at BBC asked Nick Hytner to work on the ones that had already been done and asked if there were any more and then Nick suddenly remembered that Alan Bennett had brought him around a new Talking Head a few years earlier and said to Nick did he think he might be able to do something with it, and Nick had said at the time that he didn’t think he had anywhere for it. And then he remembered that it existed and that was the one that Sarah Lancashire did and the one that I did, The Shrine, was underneath it.