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Tamara Drewe Premiere
The Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts is delighted to announce that they have been chosen by Momentum Pictures as the beneficiary charity of the UK premiere of Tamara Drewe, taking place on Monday, 6 September and you could be there too.

For your chance to walk down the red (or in this case green) carpet at the Odeon, Leicester Square please reserve tickets now by emailing events@childrenandarts.org.uk with your name, address, telephone number, email and the number of tickets you would like to reserve. Tickets are limited and will cost £50, £70 or £100.

The deadline for signing up is Monday 23 August 2010 and you will be notified within 48 hours of this date to let you know if you have been successful.

All proceeds will support Children & the Arts' work across the UK in 2011/12, taking sustainable high quality arts projects to school children who would otherwise not have the opportunity.

For more information please visit the Children & the Arts website.

Roger plays pompous and serially unfaithful crime novelist, Nicholas Hardiment, in Stephen Frear's British comedy Tamara Drewe starring Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Greig.

The film sees Gemma Arterton take on the role of Tamara Drewe, a girl who has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, and a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a thrilling power to attract. Tamara arrives in the village where her late mother lived to clear up the house. For the men of the village, she becomes an object of lust, envy, the focus of unrequited love and a seductress... First appearing as a serial in the Guardian, then enlarged and embellished in book form, now Stephen Frears, Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper along with a great British cast bring the tale to the big screen.

The film will be released in the UK on 10th September and you can follow the progress of this movie on The Tamara Drewe Facebook page.

Roger is currently starring as Falstaff in the Globe Theatre productions of Henry IV Part I and Part II.

There have been some terrific reviews for Part I, which runs from 6th June to 2nd October, and Part II which runs from 3rd July to 3rd October 2010.

**** 'One of this popular theatre's finest achievements... Roger Allam strikes me as the best Falstaff for 20 years... He delivers the great speeches, and Falstaff's fantastical lies, with great aplomb, bare-faced cheek, inspired wit and irresistible vitality... Allam's ripe, roguish charisma is as delightful as it is dazzling. The supporting roles are excellently played, too, with particularly fine work from Sam Crane as a splendidly hot-headed and engaging Hotspur. I can't wait to see Part 2'
Daily Telegraph Full review »

**** 'Allam makes one of the best Falstaffs in recent memory... Enjoys great chemistry with the whole ensemble' Daily Mail

**** 'Dominic Dromgoole offers an impassioned take on Shakespeare's story of a troubled usurper, a rebel age, a dissolute prince and his Falstaff... (Allam is) a Falstaff to treasure' The Times

Roger is currently filming a Stephen Frears movie - Tamara Drewe - starring Gemma Arterton as Tamara Drewe and Dominic Cooper. The film is currently scheduled for release in 2011. For more information visit Wikio. He is also filming another series of The Thick of It and will be recording a third series of the radio programme Cabin Pressure both for the BBC.

The photo on the right of Roger and Philip Quast was taken at the stage door for La Cage Aux Folles by Elisabeth von Glasenapp.