Giles Terera pulls out of National Theatre production following surgery

Giles Terera has pulled out of appearing in the National Theatre’s Death of England: Delroy following emergency surgery.

The theatre stressed it was not Covid-19 related, but that the actor needed six weeks recuperation.

The role in the one-man show will now be played by Michael Balogun, who has been understudying the part.

Death of England: Delroy explores a Black working-class man “searching for truth and confronting his relationship with Great Britain”.

Death of England: Delroy is the first play to be performed at the National Theatre since theatres across the UK closed on March 16.

It begins its run on October 21.