Actor/comedian Omid Djalili is to star in a new stage version of Fiddler on the Roof.

The production will be part of the new season of plays at the Chichester Festival under artistic director Daniel Evans, who will direct Djalili and his co-star Tracy Ann-Oberman.

The classic musical about life in a village in Tsarist Russia, by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, will run at the Festival Theatre from July 10 to August 26.