Soap actress Maureen Lipman is set to take a break from Coronation Street in order to focus on a brand new role.
The much-loved actress, 76, who plays Evelyn Plummer in the ITV soap, is heading for the stage and will perform a one woman show Rose at the West End later this year.
The stage show, called Rose, tells story of a woman who travels from Nazi-occupied Europe in order to set out on a new life in America after enduring hardship for years on end.
