My Darling Clemmie plays at Hertford Theatre on February 3

WINSTON Churchill’s claim that his most brilliant achievement was to persuade his wife to marry him is given ample support in Hugh Whitemore’s play My Darling Clemmie.

On at Hertford Theatre next Friday, My Darling Clemmie is a moving production about Churchill’s complex relationship with his wife Clementine.

Following the success of his TV film The Gathering Storm, which focused on the turbulent nature of the marriage between Churchill and his wife, Whitemore returns to this fascinating partnership with a one-woman show starring Rohan McCullough as Clemmie.

Told exclusively through the intimate recollections of an older Clementine, we are guided through the emotional and political harmony of their early years together, as well as the increasingly fraught years of the relationship as wider political forces, not least Churchill’s rise to power and the change this brings to his personal manner, penetrate the intimate bond between them.

Rohan McCullough began her career in the original cast of the legendary musical Hair and Jean-Louis Barrault’s Rabelais.

She has also been seen as Antigone in Oedipus at Colonnus (Manchester Royal Exchange) and in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (RSC).

Her film appearances include Derek Jarman’s War Requiem and David Hare’s Strapless.

My Darling Clemmie is on at Hertford Theatre on Friday, February 3 at 7.45pm.

Tickets are £12, and £10 concessions, and available from the box office on 01992 531500.