Britain’s National Theatre Postpones New Count Of Monte Cristo Indefinitely

“Richard Bean’s first new play since One Man, Two Guvnors has been indefinitely postponed by the National Theatre ‘to give the project some more development time’. The Count of Monte Cristo, Bean’s family-friendly adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling novel, had been scheduled to run in the National’s largest theatre, the Olivier, over the crucial Christmas period.”