David Suchet

David Suchet is winning acclaim for his performance as Archbishop Thomas Becket in a stage revival of TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. A Guardian review urges audiences to 'gather in wonder' at Suchet's 'excellent archbishop', hailing his portrayal in Eliot's verse drama about the 1170 murder of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

David Suchet is drawing acclaim for his performance in T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, with a review from the London Evening Standard calling the veteran actor spellbinding. The staging of Eliot's verse drama about the assassination of Thomas Becket has caught theatre audiences' attention, with critics highlighting Suchet's command of the material in what is being discussed as a notable revival of the classic work.

Mark Lawson reviews a new London staging of TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral at St John the Divine church, praising David Suchet's performance as Thomas Becket. The Guardian critic says the 1935 verse drama has its eccentricities but Suchet plays the doomed archbishop with a Shakespearean relish, calling his portrayal excellent and worth gathering to see in wonder.