Janie Dee
Award-Winning Actress
Janie Dee is a multi award-winning actress and singer, characterised by her extraordinary versatility in acclaimed work on stage, film, television and radio.
'The show’s glory is Janie Dee. She plays all the layers simultaneously: incredulous and wistful, chilly and carnal. Is she the best actor in Britain? Could be.' David Jays, Sunday Times Culture
'Is there a more enchanting actress on the British stage than Janie Dee? She combines good nature, good humour, an unforced charm and un-selfconscious sensuality with a sense of mischief.'
Benedict Nightingale, The Times
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Next: Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon 11 April - 30 May 2026
'This city’s sick. You need me. Arturo Ui.'
A small-time crook with big boss ambitions.
While the Great Depression inflicts hardship across the nation, Chicago’s underworld festers with sex, scandal, violence and corruption. It’s the perfect storm for a schemer like Ui, his reputation as hot as hell.
Feeding on fear, Ui and his ruthless cronies make back-alley deals to protect the workers. So far, so bad. But his helpless targets watch on as Ui's influence gains dangerous momentum and his venom threatens to seep through the markets, politics and the law to seize the city – and beyond. This is a man on a mission for power. Will anyone stop him?
The simmering streets of Chicago come to the Swan Theatre for Seán Linnen’s RSC directorial debut. Double Olivier Award-winner Mark Gatiss debuts as the Notorious Arturo Ui, in Stephen Sharkey’s translation of Brecht’s riotous 1941 ‘gangster spectacle’, a blistering satire on Hitler’s ascent to power with new music composed by Placebo.