Simon Carroll-Jones in This Much (or an Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marriage) at Edinburgh Fringe

Simon Carroll-Jones

SIMON CARROLL-JONES will be performing in theatre company Moving Dust's production of This Much (or an Act of Violence Towards the Institution of Marriage) at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play was written by John Fitzpatrick as part of the Royal Court Writer's Programme and is a performance about how we define relationships; through objects, clothes, traditions and other people. It previews at the Ovalhouse in London on 31 July and 1 August before playing in Edinburgh on 7-31 August, at 19:45 daily at ZOO.

Melissa Allan in Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour at Edinburgh Fringe and on tour

Melissa Allan

MELISSA ALLAN has started working on the National Theatre Of Scotland's production of Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, an adaptation of Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos. Adapted by Lee Hall and directed by Vicky Featherstone, the show opens at the Edinburgh Festival on 18 August, tours Scotland and then plays at the Live Theatre, Newcastle in October.

Roseanna Frascona in Nahda at Bush Theatre

Roseanna Frascona

ROSEANNA FRASCONA will be perfoming in Nahda at the Bush Theatre on 15 to 18 July. Sevan K. Greene's Nahda: four visions of an Arab awakening will be comprised of four short plays which tell stories of the confusion of second generation children of refugees, the conflicted fate of British-Muslim soldiers, the West's obsession with food fetishism and consumerism, and five generations of Arab Spring women using social media for political agency.

Vincenzo Pellegrino in Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night on tour

Vincenzo Pellegrino

VINCENZO PELLEGRINO can be seen in Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night on tour with GB Theatre Company from 25 June until 29 August. The tour takes in some of the country's most beautiful gardens and historic venues including Appleby Castle (Cumbria), Brandon Hill (Bristol), Sterts Theatre (Cornwall), Wyndcliffe Court Sculpture Gardens (near Chepstow), Kentwell Hall (Suffolk) and Arundel Castle (West Sussex).

Nicholas Gerard-Martin in the RSC King & Country season

Nicholas Gerard-Martin

NICHOLAS GERARD-MARTIN has returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company to begin rehearsals for The Famous Victories of Henry V. In the summer he will begin rehearsals for the RSC's King & Country season which comprises Henry V, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 and Richard II, performances of which will take place in Stratford, at the Barbican and abroad.

Marcus Griffiths and Colin Ryan in Love's Sacrifice, The Jew of Malta and Volpone at the RSC

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MARCUS GRIFFITHS and COLIN RYAN have both been cast in the RSC's 2015 Swan Theatre season, which includes Love's Sacrifice, The Jew of Malta and Volpone, directed by Matthew Dunster, Justin Audibert and Trevor Nunn respectively. The season opens with The Jew of Malta on 18 March.

Colin Ryan