Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon are busy rehearsing their new play, The Painkiller, which will open in the West End on March 17.

The production is the latest part of the year-long Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company season at The Garrick.

The Painkiller is an adaptation of Francis Verber’s French farce where Branagh and Brydon play two men in two lonely hotel rooms with an adjoining door. One of them is a killer and one of them wants to die.

The cast also includes Claudie Blakley and Marcus Fraser.