Kara Tointon to star in The Constant Wife tour – with dates confirmed

Kara Tointon will star in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Constant Wife.

Penned by Laura Wade, based on the comedy by W Somerset Maugham and directed by Tamara Harvey, the piece will tour the UK from 16 January 2026 before transferring on board the Queen Mary 2 during a transatlantic crossing.

Presented by David Pugh and Cunard, the production follows its acclaimed run at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon earlier this year.

Set in 1927, the play centres on Constance, a wife and mother whose seemingly perfect life masks the fact that her husband is openly devoted not only to her, but also to her best friend, who is his mistress. Maugham’s original comedy was written in 1926 and described as “a sparkling comedy of ill manners”. Wade’s new version follows her Olivier Award-winning Home, I’m Darling and her recent television success with Rivals.

The production will visit theatres across the country, beginning at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool (16 to 17 January), before visiting Chichester Festival Theatre (20 to 24 January), York Theatre Royal (26 to 31 January), Oxford Playhouse (2 to 7 February), Richmond Theatre (9 to 14 February), Theatre Royal Brighton (23 to 28 February), Chelmsford Theatre (2 to 7 March), Liverpool Playhouse (10 to 14 March), The Lowry, Salford (17 to 21 March), Arts Theatre, Cambridge (23 to 28 March), Edinburgh Festival Theatre (31 March to 4 April), Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury (7 to 11 April), Leeds Grand Theatre (13 to 18 April), Cheltenham Everyman Theatre (20 to 24 April), Poole Lighthouse (27 April to 2 May), Malvern Theatres (5 to 9 May), and Bath Theatre Royal (11 to 16 May), before embarking on the Queen Mary 2.

Tickets for select dates are on sale below.