Dame Judi Dench and Sir Anthony Sher are returning to the Royal Shakespeare Com-pany at Stratford.

Dench features as the Coun-tess of Rossillion in All's Well That Ends Well, her first role at RSC Stratford since 1979.

Sir Anthony, who performed in the award-winning Jacobean Plays last year, is Iago in Othello. Sello Maake ka Ncube stars in the title role, the first black African actor to do so.

All's Well That Ends Well runs from December 3 to February 7 and Othello from February 11 to April 3.