Edinburgh Fringe First Award-Winner Nancy Sullivan is One of the Stars of GUTTED a New Play

EDINBURGH Fringe First Award-winner Nancy Sullivan is one of the stars of Gutted, a new play at The Marlowe Studio, Canterbury.

Nancy played Leah in the one-woman show Fabric, which was produced by Robin Rayner in association with The Marlowe Theatre, and which played Canterbury before going to Edinburgh.

In Gutted, by Whitstable playwright Sharon Byrne, Nancy will take on the role of Delores. She said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to be involved with Gutted and working with such a brilliant team - and one that I've never worked with before.

"It's great to be back at The Marlowe and in Canterbury as well, the audiences were great when I was there last year for Fabric, so I'm looking forward to sharing Gutted with them. It's good to work on new writing, especially comedy, and with the play being a straight-talking Irish piece with such real and different women, there's so much to discover and play with."

Nancy's other credits include Little Voice in The Rise And Fall of Little Voice (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham REP), The Good Person Of Sichuan (Colchester Mercury), The Fastest Clock In The Universe (Old Red Lion) and Les Miserables (Queens), as well as various film, tv and radio roles.

Gutted is set in a Dublin fish factory where three women dramatise the events of a very significant night in their lives. Tales of family, trust, love and loss are shot through with dark humour, Irish brogue and adult language.

The rest of the cast comprises Lucia McAnespie (Breda), and Rose O' Loughlin (Deirdre). Lucia, who comes from Belfast but now lives in Deal, has just finished The Plough And The Stars at the National Theatre. Dublin-born Rose recently starred as Rosalind in As You Like It at the Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre.

Sharon's writing attracted the attention of The Marlowe Theatre's creative team via the Roar! writing programme and she was invited to produce Gutted for The Marlowe Studio, making her the first Marlowe "supported artist".

Sharon has gathered a production team that is almost entirely from Kent, including Primetime Emmy award-winning set designer Jo Kornstein, designer Marianne McConnell, and co-producer Sarah Horner. Nicola Samer is Gutted Director; she is currently Resident Director with the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, and is co-founder and Artistic Director of IronBark, presenting Australian Theatre in the UK.

Gutted is at The Marlowe Studio at 8pm from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 28 February. Tickets, priced £12.50 (concessions available; booking fee applies), are from the Box Office on 01227 787787, and marlowetheatre.com. Gutted is supported by The Marlowe Theatre Creative Opportunity Fund, Canterbury City Council and the Arts Council for England.

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