Overview
- Beale disclosed the illness on Wednesday at The Delaunay in London, confirming a bowel cancer diagnosis.
- He said doctors found the cancer during a hospital stay after he finished filming HBO’s House of the Dragon.
- The announcement clarifies why he left the Hampstead Theatre production of Titus Andronicus two weeks before its September opening.
- John Hodgkinson replaced him in the title role after the late withdrawal.
- He said he will resume performing next week as narrator for Greg Doran’s summer puppetry tour of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis.