Sheffield knights to remember as Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen bring Pinter to Yorkshire

The actors, known to millions around the world thanks to roles in Hollywood movies like X-Men and Lord of the Rings, will perform on the stage of Sheffield’s Lyceum in the Harold Pinter masterpiece No Man’s Land in August.

While they have acted together in the play on Broadway in New York and in London’s West End, it is the first time the pair will have appeared on stage together in Yorkshire.

The pair famously spent much of last year on stage together in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, in a much acclaimed production which saw tickets changing hands for thousands of pounds.

In Pinter’s No Man’s Land they will be directed by the acclaimed director who put them together in Waiting for Godot, Sean Mathias.

Mirfield-born Mr Stewart, one of Yorkshire’s most famous sons, said: “Sheffield is very important to me, because it was at the old Sheffield Rep that I got my first full acting job. I’d been an assistant stage manager at Lincoln, and then I got a call from Sheffield. I think I played the boyfriend in The Reluctant Debutante. I had a hairpiece. It was lovely.

“And I know the Lyceum as the location where I saw most of the pantomimes of my teenage years.”