Sacha Baron Cohen will lead the cast of Quentin Tarantino's West End play.

The 54-year-old actor will take the title role when The Popinjay Cavalier opens in an as-yet-undisclosed London theatre in the spring of 2027, Deadline reports.

The play is described as a "swashbuckling comedy" and is set in Europe in the 1830s.

A synopsis reads: "The Popinjay Cavalier is a rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise inspired by the grand swashbuckling epics of stage and screen. A sweeping celebration of theatre and its heightened romance, told with Tarantino's signature style and unmistakable wit."

The Hateful 8 filmmaker revealed last year that he was working on a play.

He told the Church of Tarantino podcast: "The play is written. It is absolutely the next thing I'm going to do. We'll start the ball rolling on it in January

"It is absolutely the next thing I'm going to do. We'll start the ball rolling on it in January. It's probably going to take up a year and a half to two years of my life, if it's a success and I've got to do the tour version of it and all that.

"I'm preparing for it to be a success. If it's a flop, I'll be done very quickly."

Tarantino has long voiced his plans to retire after making his tenth movie, and he previously hinted his play could be adapted for the big screen.

Speaking at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2025, he said: "If you're wondering what I'm doing right now, I'm writing a play, and it's going to be probably the next thing I end up doing.

"If it's a fiasco I probably won't turn it into a movie. But if it's a smash hit? It might be my last movie."

And the 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' director then launched into a rant about the state of the movie industry and why writing for theatre would be a more rewarding experience.

He said: "That's a big f****** deal pulling [a play] off, and I don't know if I can. So here we go.

"That's a challenge, a genuine challenge, but making movies? Well, what the f*** is a movie now? What -- something that plays in theatres for a token release for four f****** weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television.

"I didn't get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in '97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last f****** year of movies.

"That was a s*** deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it's gotten drastically worse? And that it's just it's a show pony exercise.

"Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. Okay. Theatre? You can't do that. It's the final frontier.

"They pay a lot of f****** money to get into that seat, there's no f******* taping it, there's no cell phone, you own the audience for that time. They are all yours, they are in the palm of your hand. It's not just about doing art, it's about wowing them, it's about giving them a great night out.

"his to me is f****** existing. It's the last frontier."