“There’s no way around this, it’s quite a big deal.” Nima Taleghani is sat in a room deep within the National Theatre, expressing a mixture of terror and ...

The Heartstopper star’s exhilarating reboot of Euripides is the first debut play to grace the hallowed Olivier stage – but it nearly didn’t happen. ‘Its not in my bones,’ he says Nima Taleghani seems ...

Nima Taleghani is perhaps best known for his role as Mr Farouk in Netflix’s Heartstopper. Now his first play – an adaptation of Euripides’ Bacchae – has become the first debut play in the Olivier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clare Perkins (Vida), Ukweli Roach (Dionysos) and the company of Bacchae at the National Theatre (Marc Brenner) “There’s no way ...