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Dame Maureen Lipman to take short Coronation Street break

By Neil Wilkes, Editor-in-chief | 17 August 2022

Dame Maureen Lipman announces that she will take a short break from Coronation Street in order to perform a one-woman play in the West End.

Dame Maureen Lipman has revealed that she will be taking a brief sabbatical from Coronation Street in order to appear on stage.

The 76-year-old actress will take on the title role in Rose, a one-woman play about a feisty Jewish woman who escaped Nazi rule to start a new life in the US.

Lipman will begin the show in Manchester at the end of the month before it transfers to the Park Theatre in London for a month's worth of performances starting in mid-September.

As a result, Corrie bosses have given her a couple of months off from her role as Evelyn Plummer on the cobbles - although she intends to return to filming soon after, potentially in time for this year's Christmas episodes.

"This has just come at a time where I've got a little holiday from Corrie," she told Good Morning Britain. "I'm going back, because I like Corrie, I like the people."

Lipman has been part of the Corrie cast since 2018.

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