More than three decades after their theatrical partnership sparked one of British theatre’s most talked-about affairs, Conclave star Ralph Fiennes is reuniting with actress Francesca Annis—the woman whose love once destroyed his marriage.
In what some fans are speculating could be more than a mere professional collaboration, the 62-year-old actor will appear alongside Annis this October, at Theatre Royal Bath, in a new play titled Small Hotel.
Echoing the past, the 79-year-old will portray his on-stage mother, replicating the same dynamic the pair shared onstage in 1995, when she played Gertrude to his Hamlet.