Emma Cunniffe News

Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough alongside Emma Cunniffe as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Queen Anne.

RSC Artistic Director, Gregory Doran, announces today the winter 2017 season in Stratford-upon-Avon and reveals plans for RSC Next Generation, a new long-term talent development programme to give up to 100 young people each year from disadvantaged backgrounds the chance to develop a career in the theatre.

Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough alongside Emma Cunniffe as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Queen Anne.

The world premiere of Ella Hickson's Wendy & Peter Pan, a fresh new adaptation of the much loved children's classic by JM Barrie has now been fully cast. Directed by Jonathan Munby, this family winter show will open for previews in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this December.

David Auburn's Pulitzer-winning drama, Proof,takes place on a decrepit back porch in Chicago and tells the story of Catherine, the perhaps exceptionally talented and perhaps unbalanced daughter of a similarly exceptional mathematician. Proof runs at the Menier Chocolate Factory until April 27 2013.

Emma Cunniffe, Mariah Gale, Matthew Marsh and Jamie Parker star in PROOF by David Auburn which begins performances at the Menier Chocolate Factory on the 14 March 2013. Polly Findlay directs David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play fresh from receiving critical plaudits for Antigone (National Theatre) and A Taste of Honey (Sheffield Theatres).

Stephen Unwin, the Rose Theatre's Artistic Director, directs Manfred Karge's The Conquest of the South Pole from Tue 29 May to Sat 2 June, following a run at East London's Arcola Theatre.

The 2009 production of Hello, Dolly! won three Laurence Olivier Awards at this year's ceremony, taking awards for Best Musical Revival, Best Actress in a Musical (Samantha Spiro) and Best Theatre Choreography (Stephen Mear).

British actor, writer and comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar will play Barry in the Rose Theatre's next home-grown production, Dumb Show, which opens on April 1st.

Helen Baxendale joins Emma Cunniffe, James Dreyfus, Aden Gillett and Vicki Pepperdine in a new comedy by April De Angelis for Hampstead's 50th Anniversary. Amongst Friends is a darkly comic satire directed by Anthony Clark and designed by Patrick Connellan and opens on Tuesday 26 May with previews from Thursday 21 May.

Helen Baxendale joins Emma Cunniffe, James Dreyfus, Aden Gillett and Vicki Pepperdine in a new comedy by April De Angelis for Hampstead's 50th Anniversary. Amongst Friends is a darkly comic satire directed by Anthony Clark and designed by Patrick Connellan and opens on Tuesday 26 May with previews from Thursday 21 May.