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SETTLING in a chair in the interview suite of the press office at the National Theatre in London - a small, ugly beige room that completely belies the grandeur of the theatre itself - Simon Russell Beale is wincing.
He hasn’t broken a leg, but almost: last night, in the middle of his performance as Joseph Stalin in Collaborators, he tripped on the multi-levelled stage, aggravating an old foot injury.
”— Simon Russell Beale kindly talked to me for The Australian, even though he was in a lot of pain!
