Tracy Shaw to bare all

Nude role: Tracy Shaw
13 April 2012

Coronation Street's Tracy Shaw is to bare all on stage after landing the lead role in a steamy show, it was announced today.

The actress, known to millions as hairdresser Maxine Peacock in the ITV1 soap, will shed her clothes for a scene in The Blue Room which will tour nationally.

Shaw, 29, will be taking the same role which Nicole Kidman famously played in the production when it was staged at London's Donmar Warehouse.

Kidman's performance was described as "theatrical Viagra" and tickets were changing hands for hundreds of pounds.

Shaw will play a number of characters in the play, which opens at Cambridge Arts Theatre on Feb 3 to start a 16-week tour.

Her agent Peter Charlesworth said the star jumped at the chance to appear.
"It's a fabulous play which has not been overperformed -there have only been two productions, at Chichester and in London with Nicole Kidman.
It's not a tired old play and it is full of multi-faceted characters."

The nudity was not a problem for the actress, he added. "It's germane to the play, it's not titillatory and gratuitous. It's just like being shot or kissed on stage, and it is only a very short scene. It's not like 'Run For Your Knickers' - it's a very fine play."

Other well-known stars to have bared all on stage have included Kathleen Turner, Jerry Hall and Amanda Donohoe who each stripped for the West End production of The Graduate.

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