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Sir Ian McKellen has watched his understudy perform in the final matinee of Player Kings, the play he was starring in before he sustained wrist and neck injuries in a dramatic fall while performing in the show.
The Lord of the Rings actor, 85, had been playing the William Shakespeare character Sir John Falstaff in the production. On 17 June, after he lost his footing during a fight scene and fell from the stage, landing on an audience member, he announced that he had pulled out of the remainder of the show’s run.
McKellen said in a statement that his exit was decided with the “greatest reluctance” due to doctor’s advice.
Despite his disappointment, McKellen went to watch the final performance ofPlayer Kings, a version of the Henry …