Brenda Blethyn to Star in HAUNTED at Manchester Royal Exchange

What's On Stage is reporting that Brenda Blethyn will return to the Manchester Royal Exchange theatre to star in Edna O'Brien's Haunted. The production will be the play's world premiere. It will run from May 13th through June 13th, 2009.

They report, "Billed as a 'memory play about love and betrayal', Haunted - not to be confused with the panned, London-set thriller of the same name seen earlier this year in the West End (See News, 18 Apr 2008) – tells the story of Mr Berry, his wife and his passion for a young lover. O’Brien is best known as a novelist and short story writer whose books include The Country Girls Trilogy, A Pagan Place and 2006’s The Light of Evening. Her 1981 play about Virginia Woolf, Virginia, was mounted in the West End starring Maggie Smith."

Brenda Blethyn previously has starred in Manchester Royal Exchange's THE GLASS MENAGERIE. She has also starred on Broadway in 'NIGHT MOTHER with Edie Falco as well as in the films "Secrets and Lies" "Little Voice" and "A River Runs Through It".

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