Charles Edwards, Jonathan Hyde to Bring The King’s Speech to West End

David Seidler’s The King’s Speech, starring Charles Edwards and Jonathan Hyde, will open at the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre on March 22, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. Adrian Noble has directed the production, which has been on a U.K. tour.

Seidler’s play centers on how King George VI conquered his debilitating stammer with the help of maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue and was the inspiration for his Academy Award-winning screenplay for the award-winning film of the same name.

Edwards starred in The 39 Steps in the West End and on Broadway. Among his other recent stage credits are Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. His film and television credits include An Ideal Husband, Monarch of the Glen, Mansfield Park, Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, and The Shell Seekers.

Hyde’s theater credits include Peter Pan, Rattigan’s Nijinsky, Jumpers, and Antigone, as well as King Lear and The Seagull, which toured internationally. Among his film credits are The Contract, The Mummy, Titanic, Jumanji, and Richie Rich.

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