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Actor John Hurt has been asked to play Quentin Crisp again in a follow-up to The Naked Civil Servant, the play which helped launch his career.
The original play, which was first shown on ITV in 1975, was based on the early years of writer Crisp growing up as a gay man in post-war Britain.
According to reports, filming on the Leopardrama production - An Englishman in New York - will start in the autumn. It follows Crisp in his later years living in New York in the 1980s and 90s. Crisp, who died in the UK in 1999, had a column in The New York Native magazine at that time.
The new play has been written by Brian Fillis, the man behind BBC Four's Fear of Fanny, the biopic about TV cook Fanny Cradock.
The Naked Civil Servant is being shown on Wednesday September 5 at 7.40pm on BBC Four as part of its Hidden Lives season to commemorate forty years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.
The original play, which was first shown on ITV in 1975, was based on the early years of writer Crisp growing up as a gay man in post-war Britain.
According to reports, filming on the Leopardrama production - An Englishman in New York - will start in the autumn. It follows Crisp in his later years living in New York in the 1980s and 90s. Crisp, who died in the UK in 1999, had a column in The New York Native magazine at that time.
The new play has been written by Brian Fillis, the man behind BBC Four's Fear of Fanny, the biopic about TV cook Fanny Cradock.
The Naked Civil Servant is being shown on Wednesday September 5 at 7.40pm on BBC Four as part of its Hidden Lives season to commemorate forty years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.
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