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May Queen to Be Re-Staged At The Belgrade This Summer

by Staff Writer
April 4, 2022
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Balisha Karra and Frankie Meredith. Photo credit Joe Bailey.

Balisha Karra and Frankie Meredith. Photo credit Joe Bailey.

The Belgrade Theatre has announced that Midlands writer Frankie Meredith’s May Queen, which premiered last summer as part of Paines Plough’s Roundabout Season, will be re-staged in-the-round in B2 from Sat 25 June – Sat 2 July.

Directed by Balisha Karra, one of the Belgrade’s three Co-Artistic Directors for the City of Culture Year, May Queen will see Yasmin Dawes reprise the role of Leigh.

May Day in Coventry, 2022. Sixteen-year-old Leigh has been chosen as May Queen. She’s buzzin’, as is the rest of the city.

       

The cider is flowing and St George’s flag is flying – but during Cov’s festivities, our Queen is inevitably toppled.

As the year moves on in the City of Peace and Reconciliation, Leigh must face up to the events of that hot May Day, and dig deep within her past and our city’s history to ask – how did she get here? And how does she get out?

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