TOP CAST FOR NEW CUSTOMS HOUSE
PRODUCTION
Five
Dead No Bodies
South
Shields Customs
House
Wednesday
15th - Saturday 18th February 2017
The Customs House has announced the cast for the new play Five
Dead No Bodies which will premiere at the South
Shields theatre in February.
Five Dead No Bodies has been co-written by Susan Wear and Rob
Lawson and concerns the Tyneside Times, a fictional local newspaper struggling
to retain its circulation and relevancy.
The cast includes several familiar faces to The Customs House
stage, including stars of the much-lauded summer hits Geordie the Musical and
The Dolly Mixtures.
 |
|
MICKY
COCHRANE …
pictured
second from left in Geordie the Musical,
will
play the Editor in Five Dead No Bodies
|
You may recognise him as "Dave", the lad in the Tesco advert that cooks a curry for his wife, Dunston-born actor Micky
Cochrane will play the role of the newspaper editor.
Micky has been an actor since 2003 and has made numerous theatre and TV
appearances. His small screen credits include George Gently, 55 Degrees North
and Dogtown. He is a regular at The
Customs House most recently last year in Geordie the Musical. Micky was also
the lead singer with popular local band ThisGroundMoves, who had a song used on
TV’s CSI: New
York.
The rest of the cast play multiple roles. Actor and singer
Kylie Ann Ford, from South Shields,
trained at Northern Stage after studying a Drama degree at Northumbria University. After
completing her training at Northern Stage, she attended a clown training course
in Barcelona. Kylie
Ann is one third of the Shields-based vocal harmony group The Boardwalk Belles,
and a regular performer at The Customs House, having appeared in the venue’s
pantomime and most recently in The Dolly Mixtures.
Gary Goodyear has made many theatre and TV appearances since
training at the Drama Studio in Ealing, including in the hit TV crime series A
Place of Execution. He has toured
theatres throughout the UK and
across the north including Live, Northern Stage and Alphabetti. As well as
performing in army camps, hospitals and prisons, he has developed themed works
including a specially commissioned Loan Shark play for the National Illegal
Money Lending Team and a therapeutic film for the military concerning soldiers
returning home from combat.
 |
|
CHRISTINA
BERRIMAN-DAWSON …
One
of the stars in hit musical The Dolly Mixtures
|
Christina Berriman-Dawson most recently appeared at The
Customs House in The Dolly Mixtures and has many other theatre credits to her
name, including Key Change, which toured off Broadway. She has also appeared in the TV series George
Gently, and feature films Electricity and The Magdalene Sisters. Fatfield-based Christina trained at Northumbria University Live Theatre Academy.
Teesside-born actor Andy Berriman completes the cast. Andy is also a successful film and theatre
director and is making his debut at The Customs House.
Writer Susan was nominated for North East Writer of the Year
for her play The Duke in the Cupboard, which was popular with Customs House
audiences in October 2015. Rob was an evening newspaper editor for 16 years,
editing both the Shields Gazette and the Sunderland Echo.
Five Dead No Bodies will be directed by Scott Young, Artistic
Director at OddManOut Theatre Company. Scott said: “We’re delighted to have such a great cast
who are all very excited about taking on a brand new play and bringing it to
life – especially when beneath the comedy it has such an important message about
how we get the news that is so relevant to everyone in
this so-called post truth era of fake news and confected stories.”
Tickets:
The play will be on at The Customs House from Wednesday 15th
February to Saturday 18th February. Tickets are available priced £18,
or £15 for concessions, from the box office on 0191 454 1234 or by logging on
to The Customs House’s new website at www.customshouse.co.uk.
No comments:
Post a Comment