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From Red Dwarf to Yellow Chair

The latest production at Southwark Playhouse, Letters from the Yellow Chair, focuses on the intensity, both emotional and creative, of Vincent Van Gogh's final years. It explores the life of the artist and shows that without the long-suffering brother Theo there would have been no Vincent. Graham McTavish, most recently seen on TV as Red Dwarf's Warden Ackerman, plays Vincent, with Nick Pace as Theo. Described by Scotland on Sunday as "desperately poignant and moving", this successful show has played in Edinburgh, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland and Adelaide.