WEST End star Kara Tointon will be joined by Rupert Young and Keith Allen in Anthony Banks's new touring production of Patrick Hamilton's psychological thriller Gaslight next year, visiting York for a week.

Opening at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre, Gaslight will play the Grand Opera House from January 30 to February 4 with 2013 Strictly Come Dancing winner Tointon cast as Bella Manningham, the role memorably portrayed by Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman in the 1944 film adaptation. Young, from BBC1’s Merlin, will play Bella's husband Jack Manningham; Allen will be Detective Rough.

In Gaslight, while Jack Manningham is on the town each evening, his wife Bella is home alone. She cannot explain the disappearance of familiar objects, the mysterious footsteps overhead or the ghostly flickering of living room gaslight, but is she losing her mind? Does the terror exist in her imagination or are dark secrets living in her home? The surprise arrival of retired Detective Rough leads to a shocking discovery that will shake her respectable Victorian marriage to its core.

In the West End, leading lady Kara Tointon has played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and appeared in revivals of Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends and Relatively Speaking. As well as her triumph in BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, her television highlights have included portraying the title character’s daughter Rosalie, alongside real-life sibling Hannah, in the ITV costume drama Mr Selfridge and Maria in the ITV production of The Sound Of Music Live! last December.

Rupert Young is best known for his role as Sir Leon in the BBC drama series Merlin. He also starred alongside Michael Sheen in the 2004 film Dirty Filthy Love, performed in the Cole Porter’s musical High Society at the Old Vic and appeared this summer in Terence Rattigan's While The Sun Shines at Bath Theatre Royal.

Keith Allen has all manner of credits as an actor on stage and screen as well as a comedian, musician, singer-songwriter, artist, author, television presenter and documentary writer and director. He was part of the Comic Strip Presents team and has appeared in such films as 24 Hour Party People, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave and, yes, he is pop singer Lily Allen's father.

Director Anthony Banks was an associate director at the National Theatre until 2014, and while there he commissioned and developed 100 new plays for NT Connections.

Tickets for Gaslight can be booked on 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york