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Exclusive: Rachel Tucker and Imogen Stubbs star in Communicating Doors

Lindsay Posner’s revival opens at the Menier Chocolate Factory in May

Rachel Tucker at the 2011 WhatsOnStage Awards
Rachel Tucker at the 2011 WhatsOnStage Awards
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Rachel Tucker, recently seen in Sting's The Last Ship on Broadway, will appear alongside Imogen Stubbs in the Menier Chocolate Factory's upcoming revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors, WhatsOnStage can reveal.

Running from 7 May to 27 June, the production will be directed by Lindsay Posner, whose recent West End credits include Speed-the-Plow and Noises Off.

Tucker, whose other credits include Wicked, and Stubbs, recently seen in the Almeida's Little Revolution, will be joined in the cast by: David Bamber (Betty Blue Eyes), Lucy Briggs-Owen (Shakespeare in Love) and Matthew Cottle (A Small Family Business).

Communicating Doors sees hired dominatrix (Tucker) flee for her life through a hotel communicating door only to find herself 20 years in the past.

The play premiered in 1994 and won Ayckbourn the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best West End Play Award as well as the Molière Award in France.

Tickets for the Menier revival are on sale now.