Liverpool actress Cathy Tyson, who began her acting career in the Everyman Youth Theatre, joins a wonderful ensemble cast for the world première of Stephen Sharkey's The May Queen. This dark and brutal thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Merseyside also stars Leanne Best, Mark Arends, Paul Duckworth and Michael Ryan and is at the Liverpool Everyman from Friday 4 to Saturday 26 May 2007.
Frank Donohue is dead. Murdered. And as the culprits bury his death in the chaos of the Blitz, his daughter Theresa prays for revenge. Revenge for her father, her brother and herself.
Cathy Tyson joined the Everyman Youth Theatre at 17 and in 1984, following her appearance in The Blitz Show, she won admission to the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her theatre credits include leading roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, Talawa and Theatr Clwyd. She is best known for her striking debut in the film Mona Lisa, for which she won a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, and also for her roles on television in Band of Gold and most recently Grange Hill. In The May Queen Cathy plays Angela Donohue, mother to Teresa and Michael.
Leanne Best (Our Country's Good, The Flint St Nativity, The Way Home, Unprotected, The Morris) takes the role of avenging daughter Theresa Donohue. Mark Arends (What Every Woman Knows, Urban Legend, Silent Witness) plays her AWOL brother Michael Donohue. Michael Ryan (Paradise Bound, Dream Team) plays JJ Collins, Michael's friend. Paul Duckworth (Unprotected, Urban Legend, The Dover Cliff Dweller) plays Colin - the friend of Angela's lover Vinnie (still to be cast). Liliane, a Jewish German refugee befriended by Michael and JJ, is played by Alisa Arnah (Jane Eyre - BBC).
Rehearsals for The May Queen are scheduled to begin on Monday 2 April 2007. -- www.everymanplayhouse.com
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