John Malkovich to play serial killer in London's West End

Hollywood actor John Malkovich is heading to London's West End to play the role of a serial killer.

Malkovich, 56, will star in the real-life story of the serial killer Jack Unterweger at the Barbican Centre next year.

The one-man show will be called The Infernal Comedy and sees the actor backed by a Baroque orchestra and a chorus.

The show's artistic director, Graham Sheffield, said the play's story has a striking resemblance to that of Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter locked up in a cellar below his home.

Sheffield said: "We're not afraid to tackle work that deals with the issues of the day.

"Part of the reason I picked it - it's not a great, fun evening in the sense of going to see In The Loop or something - was the issue of how people like that, monsters like that, can get away with crimes like that.