The 47-year old acted alongside Dame Judi in a 2009 London production of Madame de Sade as well as the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day.

In a statement issued via lawyers on Tuesday, Switzer Consulting Limited said the show had been cancelled

The BBC upheld ‘some, but not all’ of the allegations made by Abbington about her dance partner Giovanni Pernice, 34.

Float is produced by Crybaby Productions and written by emerging playwrights Orla Graham and Kirby Thompson.