l Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid, known to millions across the world as Senator Palpatine/The Emperor from the Star Wars films, will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 27 years when he plays the title role in the company's forthcoming production of A Life Of Galileo.
l Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid, known to millions across the world as Senator Palpatine/The Emperor from the Star Wars films, will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 27 years when he plays the title role in the company's forthcoming production of A Life Of Galileo.
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The masterpiece by Berthold Brecht has been newly translated by RSC writer-in-residence Mark Ravenhill and will run at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from January 31 to March 30. Carnoustie-born McDiarmid, who has a long association with the Almeida Theatre in London, was seen on the Scottish stage in 2009 in the National Theatre of Scotland's adaptation of Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me, which he also directed.
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