The Constituent

Whatever you think of James Corden, there’s no denying that the actor-slash-TV personality has an immaculate stage CV, consiting as it does of the original National Theatre productions of ‘The History Boys’ and ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’. His lengthy escapade being a talkshow host in America has means he’s not acted on stage in over a decade, but time to find out if third time is the charm as he stars in Joe Penhall’s new drama ‘The Constituent’. In it, the wonderful Anna Maxwell Martin stars as overworked backbench MP, with Corden as her ex-squaddie constituent angry at her for the catastrophic state of his life. The exact tone is hard to gauge without anyone having seen it, but it does sound like a fairly serious affair, in a post Jo Cox-style, although all will be revealed soon enough. Old Vic boss Matthew Warchus directs.