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Following a sold out run at the Chichester Festival Theatre and a short UK tour, Roger Crane's The Last Confession comes to the West End starring David Suchet as Cardinal Benelli.
In 1978, a little-known Cardinal from Venice is elected to succeed Pope Paul VI. Just thirty-three days later, he is dead. No official investigation is conducted, no autopsy is performed and the Vatican’s press release about the cause of death is later found to be, in large part, false. More suspiciously, just the evening before his death, John Paul had warned three of his most influential but hostile Cardinals that they would be replaced.
His death marks the climax of fifteen troubled years of controversy, machination within the Church’ schisms threaten its unity and the shadow of the Mafia hovers over its financial affairs. Only Cardinal Benelli has the power to challenge the dead Pope’s enemies.
This incisive new thriller tracks the dramatic tensions, crises of faith and political manoeuvrings inside the Vatican surrounding the death of the man known as the Smiling Pope.
Running Time
2 hours 35 minutes
Address
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Haymarket
London
SW1Y 4HT
Travel
Nearest Underground: Piccadilly Circus
Nearest Rail: Charing Cross
Bus Routes: 14, 19, 22, 24, 29, 38, 40, 176
Parking: MasterPark Whitcomb Street, NCP Denman Street and Leicester Place.
Access
There are no steps to the auditorium through the exit doors either side of the main entrance. There is one wheelchair space and transfer seating is available to any aisle seat. Wheelchair users should be accompanied by a non-wheelchair using companion.
Guide dogs are not allowed into the auditorium, but a staff member can look after them.
At present there are no facilities for the hearing impaired.
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