‘Elegant, Lucid
and Witty’
‘A Highly
Enjoyable Play’
The Guardian
The world is listening...
A country on the precipice of another terrible war. An abdicated king. A constitutional crisis. And the only man who can provide hope for the nervous British public is Bertie – a man who is shy, unprepared for monarchy and, worst of all, has a debilitating speech impediment.
With the future of the monarchy, and Britain itself, on the line, an historic radio address looms over a man who can barely stammer through full sentences. Desperate, Bertie and his family turn to an unconventional speech therapist from Australia to turn him into the king Britain can believe in.
Starring Stefan Dennis (Neighbours) as Lionel Logue and George Rainsford (Casualty) as Bertie King George VI, this gripping drama follows the unlikely friendship that emerges as royal protocol meets unorthodox challenges.
Adapted from the Oscar-winning film, this exciting new production from the acclaimed Barn Theatre blends humour, heart and high stakes in a beloved drama about duty, courage and finding one’s voice.
UK TOUR 2027
CAST
Stefan is best known for playing Paul Robinson in Neighbours, the longest running drama series in Australian television history. He created the role for the first episode in 1985 and appeared in over 6,000 episodes during the 40 years that the show was on air.
His numerous other TV credits include: Ruxx (HBO MAX),Wentworth (Netflix), Mad as Hell (ABC), Stingers (Nine Network), Good Guys Bad Guys (Nine Network), Blue Heelers (Seven Network), Prisoner (Network Ten), and The Flying Doctors (Nine Network).
During a break from Neighbours, Stefan moved to the UK and appeared in a number of productions including The Bill (ITV), River City (BBC), Casualty (BBC), The Office (Richmond Films), and Dream Team (SKY), as well as various concert performances including a Royal Command Performance. Stefan also starred in the West End musical Blood Brothers which he also directed for a tour of New Zealand.
Other Theatre credits include: Fool for Love, Whose Life is It Anyway?, Point of Death, Murder by Misadventure, and The Anniversary.
Film credits include: Apparitions, The Truth About Love, and Channel Chaos.
In 2025 Stefan was part of the celebrity line-up of Strictly Come Dancing (BBC).
Trained: LAMDA
Theatre Credits include: Dear England (National Theatre); Picture You Dead, Wish You Were Dead (Peter James, LGD Productions Ltd); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Runaway Entertainment); Love Love Love (Royal Court Theatre); Carrot / Playlist (Latitude Festival); Twisted Tales (Lyric Hammersmith); The Man (Finborough Theatre); Days of Significance (RSC Tour); All’s Well That Ends Well (National Theatre); Miles To Go (Latitude Festival); Polar Bear (Birmingham Rep); Chatoom / Citizenship (National Theatre & Tour); Men Without Shadows (Finborough Theatre); The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); The 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic).
Television Credits include: Professor T (Eagle Eye Drama / ITV); Ludwig Christmas Special (Big Talk Studios/ BBC); Father Brown (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Holby City (BBC); Call The Midwife (Neal Street Productions); Law & Order: UK (Kudos/ ITV); Waking The Dead (BBC); Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Tiger Aspect); Doctors (BBC); Panorama: A Good Kicking (BBC)
Film Credits include: Bank of Dave 2 (Netflix); The Monkey’s Paw (Aslan Productions); Waiting For Dawn (Brother Brother Films/ Kaos Films); Wild Target (Wild Target Productions); Souvenirs (Ride the Warble).
Stefan is best known for playing Paul Robinson in Neighbours, the longest running drama series in Australian television history. He created the role for the first episode in 1985 and appeared in over 6,000 episodes during the 40 years that the show was on air.
His numerous other TV credits include: Ruxx (HBO MAX),Wentworth (Netflix), Mad as Hell (ABC), Stingers (Nine Network), Good Guys Bad Guys (Nine Network), Blue Heelers (Seven Network), Prisoner (Network Ten), and The Flying Doctors (Nine Network).
During a break from Neighbours, Stefan moved to the UK and appeared in a number of productions including The Bill (ITV), River City (BBC), Casualty (BBC), The Office (Richmond Films), and Dream Team (SKY), as well as various concert performances including a Royal Command Performance. Stefan also starred in the West End musical Blood Brothers which he also directed for a tour of New Zealand.
Other Theatre credits include: Fool for Love, Whose Life is It Anyway?, Point of Death, Murder by Misadventure, and The Anniversary.
Film credits include: Apparitions, The Truth About Love, and Channel Chaos.
In 2025 Stefan was part of the celebrity line-up of Strictly Come Dancing (BBC).
Trained: LAMDA
Theatre Credits include: Dear England (National Theatre); Picture You Dead, Wish You Were Dead (Peter James, LGD Productions Ltd); 2:22 A Ghost Story (Runaway Entertainment); Love Love Love (Royal Court Theatre); Carrot / Playlist (Latitude Festival); Twisted Tales (Lyric Hammersmith); The Man (Finborough Theatre); Days of Significance (RSC Tour); All’s Well That Ends Well (National Theatre); Miles To Go (Latitude Festival); Polar Bear (Birmingham Rep); Chatoom / Citizenship (National Theatre & Tour); Men Without Shadows (Finborough Theatre); The Three Musketeers (Bristol Old Vic); The 24 Hour Plays (The Old Vic).
Television Credits include: Professor T (Eagle Eye Drama / ITV); Ludwig Christmas Special (Big Talk Studios/ BBC); Father Brown (BBC); Casualty (BBC); Holby City (BBC); Call The Midwife (Neal Street Productions); Law & Order: UK (Kudos/ ITV); Waking The Dead (BBC); Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Tiger Aspect); Doctors (BBC); Panorama: A Good Kicking (BBC)
Film Credits include: Bank of Dave 2 (Netflix); The Monkey’s Paw (Aslan Productions); Waiting For Dawn (Brother Brother Films/ Kaos Films); Wild Target (Wild Target Productions); Souvenirs (Ride the Warble).
Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Theatre Credits include: Judy in Home, I’m Darling (by Laura Wade); Elvira in Noel Coward’s Blythe Spirit; Brooke in Noises Off by Michael Frayn; Marion in Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn; Sarah in A Daughter’s A Daughter by Agatha Christie; Cherry in September Tide by Daphne du Maurier; Patty in The Fool by Edward Bond; Esme in Walking the Tightrope by Mike Kenny; Sophie in Murder in Play by Simon Brett and Nancy in Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton. Her numerous premiere productions and readings for stage include Samuel Bailey’s break-out play, Islanders; and Philippa Gregory’s first stage play, Richard, My Richard, at the National Theatre. Rosanna played Fiona in Haywire at The Barn last year, about the creation of The Archers.
TV Credits include: In addition to appearing in such well-loved stage plays, Rosanna is also passionate about new writing, playing Tracy in one of Jed Mercurio’s first TV series, The Grimleys (ITV) and starring as Griff in the fantasy movie trilogy, Warchief(Amazon Prime.)
Rosanna is a global voice actor and her extensive radio-drama career includes Doctor Who, The Avengers, Dracula and The Moomins amongst many others.
Theatre includes: Glengarry Glen Ross (The Old Vic); Mary Page Marlowe (The Old Vic); The Independent Socialist Republic of the Upper End of the Lower Breck Road (Royal Court, Liverpool); Watch on the Rhine (Donmar Warehouse); Karaoke Play (Bunker Theatre); Anna of the Five Towns (New Vic Theatre)
Television includes: Malpractice, This City is Ours
Theatre credits include: Winston Churchill in The Lion and the Unicorn (Crime and Comedy Theatre Company national tour); Boris Johnson in DOM (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh/Theatre Royal, Windsor/The Other Palace Studio/White Bear); Toad in The
Wind in the Willows (Old Vic and No 1 Tour); The Exe Men (Exeter Northcott Theatre); The Mouth of the Gods (Hoxton Hall); Bullie’s House (Riverside Studios); Twelfth Night (Leicester Haymarket Studio/Mauritius); The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing (Guildford Shakespeare Company); By Jeeves (Really Useful Group); Sleuth (Sheringham); Who’s the Daddy? (King’s Head); Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Columbus & The Discovery of Japan, A Woman Killed with Kindness, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Virtuoso, The Alchemist, ION (all for the RSC); West Side Story (West End/No 1 Tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (Worcester Swan); Richard III (Ludlow Festival); Sir Thomas More (Shaw Theatre); The Forsyte Saga (Salisbury Playhouse).
He has also been Dame, Ugly Sister, Baron and Villain in 24 pantomimes.
Training: RADA
Theatre Credits include: Dear England (National Theatre tour); What The Butler Saw, The Duchess of Malfi; Richard III; The Provoked Wife; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Crucible; The Recruiting Officer; The Caretaker; Dancing At Lughnasa; Arsenic and Old Lace; Saturday Night Sunday Morning; Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC & West End); Peaches (Royal Court); No Way Out; The Long and the Short and the Tall and The Darling Buds of May. More recently he played Lewis Mumford in a new David Hare play Straight Line Crazy alongside Ralph Fiennes at The Bridge Theatre in London and Sergeant Rough in Gaslight both in Harrogate and Eastbourne.
Television credits include: Casualty; Coronation Street; Shine On Harvey Moon; Uncle Max; Nuzzle and Scratch; The Toys That Built America; Charity Shop Sue and ex-footballing Geordie pundit, Terry McIlroy, in Channel 4’s Pete vs Life.
Ian also created and portrayed the characters of Frank Burgess, the strict disciplinarian prison officer in several series of The Slammer and the no nonsense Geordie copper Harry Batt for whom he co-wrote a one off comedy for BBC1.
Theatre credits include: The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui (RSC); Ballet Shoes (National Theatre); Kyoto (Soho Place); Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre – original cast); A Little Life (Harold Pinter, Savoy Theatre); The Doctor (Duke of York’s Theatre); The Totalitarians (English Theatre Frankfurt); Kill Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Comedy About a Bank Robbery (Criterion Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre); The Last Confession (Los Angeles, Toronto, Australia); Backbeat (Duke of York’s Theatre, Toronto, LA); Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre); The Shawshank Redemption (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Blood Brothers (UK Tour).
