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NANCY CARROLL, who will star in Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea, a study of how disruptive erotic love can be.

She will play Hester, a judge’s wife who falls for a selfish former World War ii fighter pilot. The affair turns her life upside down and she’s plunged into life-threatening despair.

it’s a marvellous play that’s perfectly suited to a great actress like Ms Carroll (above). The production, to be directed by Paul Foster, will run in the Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minerva studio late next spring.

The last time Carroll performed Rattigan it was After The Dance (opposite Benedict Cumberbatch) at the National, for which she picked up best actress honours at the olivier and evening Standard awards. SHARON D. CLARKE and Cedric Neal, pictured, who will star in a concert production of Martin Smith’s King. Clarke portrays Martin Luther King Jr’s mother Alberta, and Neal will play the Nobel Peace Prize winner who was assassinated 50 years ago.

In a cruel twist of fate, Alberta King was shot and killed six years after her son’s death, as she worshipped in church. The show, directed by Susie McKenna, will be performed at the Hackney Empire in London on July 1. HUGH DANCY, pictured, who will join Stockard Channing in the offBroadway transfer of Alexi kaye Campbell’s play Apologia, which had a run at Trafalgar Studios last year.

Dancy will play two brothers in the drama about a Sixties radical who tries to impose her beliefs on her children.

it’s a lively, and engaging play that should work well in New York. it opens at the Laura Pels Theatre in october.