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MY ROADMAP TO DONALD TRUMP

Bertie Carvel has serious range. How else to explain how he has been cast as Rupert Murdoch (in Ink , for which he won Olivier and Tony awards), Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical (another Olivier), Tony Blair in the next two series of Netflix’s The Crown , and now Donald Trump?

In , a new play by Mike Bartlett, Carvel takes on Trump, set to the rhythms of Shakespearean verse. In the near future, at the next US election, Trump bids to regain the presidency and Kamala

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