Casting announced for Anya Reiss' Uncle Vanya, The Unquiet Grave of Garcia Lorca and The Gamblers

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming Uncle Vanya at the St James Theatre, part of the One Stage season at the venue.

Joining the previously announced cast including John Hannah and Amanda Hale will be Jack Shepherd, whose stage credits including Home (Arcola) and Master Builder (Almeida), and Rebecca Night, who has appeared in Starlings (Sky One) and theatre including A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic) and The Grapes of Wrath (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Anya Reiss' new version of Chekhov's classic runs at the theatre from 8 October to 8 November and is directed by Russell Bolam and produced by Emily Dobbs.

Casting has also been announced for former Evening Standard chief theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh's new play The Unquiet Grave of Garcia Lorca at the The Drayton Arms Theatre from 30 September.

The Unquiet Grave of Garcia Lorca will star John Atterbury, who appeared as Phineas Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and his theatre credits include Ivanov (Donmar West End), Our Town (Shaftesbury Theatre) and Bent (National Theatre) among others.

The cast also includes Matthew Bentley debuting as Lorca's lover, Peter Dineen (The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest), James Groom (Ashes, Park Theatre, True Tales of Robin Hoode, Shakespeare’s Globe) Damien Hasson (A Clockwork Orange, Latitude/Edinburgh/world tour, The Bacchae, Southwark Playhouse) and Julia Tarnoky (Children of Fate, Sleeping Rough, A Kind Of Alaska).

The play presents the final days of renowned gay Spanish poet/playwright, Garcia Lorca, as he is on the run from General Franco's Nationalists and fascist supporters as the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Directed by Hamish MacDougall, associate director of The King's Head Theatre and an associate artist of The National Youth Theatre, it runs from 30 September to 25 October 2014.

Crystal Clarke will lead the cast of a new all-female UK tour of Gogol's The Gamblers, which kicks off in Dundee on 22 October.

Clarke, who is also involved in the new Star Wars film, is joined in the cast by Emmerdale's Zoe Lambert, Amanda Hadingue (A Small Family Business, National Theatre; Public Enemy, Young Vic), Hannah McPake (Green Man/Red Woman, National Theatre Wales; Knight of the Burning Pestle, Shakespeare’s Globe), Emilie Patry (It’s Only Words, Evelyn, A Beginning A Middle and an End, Traverse) and Emily Winter (And Then There Were None, Dundee Rep).

The Gamblers is in a new version by Selma Dimitrijevic and Mikhail Durnenkov, and produced by Greyscale and Dundee Rep Ensemble in association with Stellar Quines and Northern Stage. Some of Greyscale's recent work includes Gods Are Fallen and All Safety Gone and Tenet. It tours the UK until 15 November.