Joseph Fiennes will play the title role in Terence Rattigan's Ross, directed by Adrian Noble, running at Chichester Festival Theatre from 3 to 25 June.
He will be joined by Michael Feast, Paul Freeman and Peter Polycarpou, with Navinder Bhatti, Jorell Coiffic-Kamall, Ian Drysdale, Eben Figueiredo, Brendan Hooper, John Hopkins, Nicholas Prasad, Jay Saighal Nick Sampson, Peter Sandys-Clarke, Gary Shelford, Benjamin Wainwright, Christopher Walters and Rick Yale.
Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn and with a talent for self-concealment, Aircraftman Ross seems an odd recruit for the Royal Air Force. Behind the false name is an enigma, a man who started as a civilian in the Map Office in 1914.
Despite never receiving an official commission, he went on to mastermind some of the most audacious military victories in the history of the British Army, including the 1916 Arab Revolt against the Turks. These victories earned him the nom de guerre Laurence of Arabia.