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Breaking Baz: ‘Sherwood’s’ James Graham Hits West End With Alan Bleasdale’s ‘Boys From The Blackstuff’, Talks Europe-Set TV Thriller & Updates On Soccer Drama ‘Dear England’

Soccer-crazy ‘Sherwood’ actor James Graham hits the West End with 'Boys From the Blackstuff', talks TV thriller and gives update on ‘Dear England’: Breaking Baz

EXCLUSIVE: James Graham sets a mental timer of strictly 45 minutes for a conversation that will encompass tonight’s gala opening at London’s National Theatre — en route to a run at the Garrick Theatre — of his sublime stage adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s landmark 1982 television drama Boys from the Blackstuff; followed by updates about the BBC TV version of his Olivier Award-winning soccer play Dear England, which will see him doing on-the-ground research at next month’s Euros in Germany; plus revelations about an epic new show he’s developing with House Productions that will explore the “mood sweeping across Europe.” Watching the production, directed with passion and wit by Kate Wasserberg, which began at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre, it’s not hard to see how Graham’s version of Bleasdale’s seminal work echoes the hardships many are enduring now. The cast includes George Caple ( Doctor Who) Dominic Carter ( Coronation Street, Game of Thrones), Helen Carter ( The Flint Street Nativity at Liverpool Everyman), Aron Julius ( Death on the Nile, Death in Paradise), Nathan McMullen ( Doctor Who Christmas Special), Lauren O’Neil (plays Witness for the Prosecution, This House), Jamie Peacock ( Masquerad), Barry Sloane ( The Bay, Litvinenko) as Yosser, Liam Tobin( Then and Now) and Mark Womack ( The Responder, Murphy’s Law).

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