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Mark Gatiss - RHLSTP 439 (2023) ... And glasses :) The full video of Richard Herring's podcast on YT

Behind the scenes Video by Emily Jane Bobczenok

Brian Molko: And it's been, it's been such a pleasure getting to do it and such a lovely collaboration. I really, really dreamt that the music would begin to influence the action on stage and the movement on the stage, then you guys sent me a bit of a rehearsal tape, and there Mark was with the other actors doing a choreography to one of our songs, and that was just… it's happened my while this dream. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Creating the Music with Placebo

Sean [Linnen] texted me and said, you ever thought about Arturo Uri? And I said, I've thought about nothing else. What the play does is parallel the events that gave rise to the Nazi party allegorically. So there's a sort of protection racket around cauliflowers. It's all about vegetables, which is a funny kind of way of making it sort of innocuous. And yet there's something really sinister about that idea, I think. Getting into character is a combination of things, obviously, I have to watch a lot of interviews and study the voice and the mannerisms and then I've just got to work on it with Sean and the rest of the cast. It's a remarkable play I think. It's really important and savage at times but it's also great fun.

Edit of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui RSC, The Swan, Stratford-Upon-Avon Video: channel4.com and @louisa.granelly Music: Placebo

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Audio of two scenes with Mark Gatiss in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2026)

TEASER Bookish S2

'It's like a punch in the face… and that can be funny too' — Mark Gatiss about The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

the pilot episode of the web series Hooked In

Photo Credit: Marc Brenner

Featuring Mark Gatiss