Simon Russell Beale: King Luvvy pauses... for Pinter
You do not go to meet Simon Russell Beale without the accompaniment of a certain musical fanfare. It's not audible, this fanfare, you can't hear it in the air around you, but it's nevertheless present, subliminally, a kind of drum roll followed by trumpets that culminate, so you imagine, in a climactic ta-da! This is largely because he is routinely, if not mandatorily these days, proclaimed as our greatest living sta…