Editing Becket (section)

===London productions===
The first [[London]] production was at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] on 11 July 1961, directed by [[Peter Hall (theatre director)|Peter Hall]] for the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]. [[Eric Porter]] played Becket and [[Christopher Plummer]] the King, with [[Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies]], [[Peter Jeffrey]], [[Diana Rigg]], [[Ian Holm]] and [[Roy Dotrice]] in the cast. The play later transferred to the [[Gielgud Theatre|Globe Theatre]]. Plummer won the [[Evening Standard Award]] for his performance after taking over the part from [[Peter O'Toole]], who broke his contract with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company|RSC]] before rehearsals began in order to take the lead in [[David Lean]]'s film ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''.

The play was revived in a new [[translation]] by [[Frederic Raphael]] and [[Stephen Raphael]] in October 1991 at the [[Haymarket Theatre]] with [[Derek Jacobi]] as Becket and [[Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay]] as the King and again in October 2004 with [[Dougray Scott]] and [[Jasper Britton]].  The original English translation for the 1961 version (by [[Lucienne Hill]]) was revived at the Southwark Playhouse in September 2001 with [[Rupert Degas]] and [[Colin Salmon]].