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From the palace to Ikea: The Crown's Foy and Smith reunite for Old Vic run

Pair to star in two-hander Lungs as theatre also reveals a Beckett double bill with Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming

Claire Foy and Matt Smith, who starred as the Queen and Prince Philip in the first two series of Netflix’s addictive hit The Crown, are to be reunited on stage in a strikingly different setting: Ikea.

On Tuesday, the Old Vic announced a new production of Duncan Macmillan’s two-hander Lungs, which starts with a man catching his partner off guard in the Ikea queue by suggesting they have a baby.

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