DEATH & MERCY
DEATH & MERCY
table read cast
Credits include: QUEENS OF SHEBA, 2023, Public Theatre / Soho Theatre/ Nouveau Riche, DREAMING WHILST BLACK, 2023, A24-BBC Three and AFRICAN QUEENS: NJINGA, 2022, Westbrook Studios / Nutopia Productions
Plays: Mercy - 41; southern working-class accent, mixed race, witty and facetious but endearing with a big heart, can handle herself, haunted by her twin brother’s disappearance, and suffering from a mid-life crisis.
Eshe Asante
Credits include: 1917, 2019, Universal Pictures, THE KING, 2019, Netflix, DUMBO, 2019, Tim Burton Productions and ANDOR, 2022, Lucasfilm / Disney+
Plays: Jimmy - 35; homeless drug addict, ex-military policeman suffering from PTSD after serving in the Middle-East
Josef Davies
Credits include: GIRLS NIGHT, 2023, Peter Marsh Films, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. 2023, Identity School of Acting and UNDERCOVER, 2022, Identity School of Acting.
Plays: Cas - 19; jovial homeless girl with a gruff Mancunian accent and a positive outlook, likes getting high, Emily Kincaid - 58, smartly dressed, stern yet attractive, with an air of ‘old money’ about her and Officer Carter - 30s, broad and tall.
LUCY CORONA
Credits include: THE AMAZING MR. BLUNDEN, 2021, Adorable Media for Sky One, ALL ABOUT EVE, 2019, Delfont Mackintosh and BACK, 2021, Channel 4
Plays: Nadia - 22; Afghan refugee, on the run from an arranged marriage with her controlling fiancé Kamal and his cousins perusing her across Europe, Jane - 40s; policewoman, Mercy’s old colleague and friend and Birdy - 58; older homeless lady with long grey/greasy hair, ex-hippy, a little bit away with the fairies from decades of taking acid and mushrooms.
TSION HABTE
Credits include: LONDON KILLS, 2019, Acorn
Plays: Kane - 17; Mercy’s son, brazen as hell, Preston - 25; homeless drug addict, shifty and sketchy and Young Man.
LUKE FEWELL
Credits include: VILLAIN, 2020, Feature Film, TONY, 2009, Abbot Vision, TATE: TWO DAYS OF BLOOD, 2021, Carnaby Films
Plays: Duty Sergeant - 50s; heavy-set, super conservative, hates homeless people, Griff - 40s, sunburnt, siping a can of high-strength lager, Pub Landlord - early 40s; hates homeless people.
GEORGE RUSSO
Credits include: THE NEVERS, 2021, HBO, BECOMING ELIZABETH, 2022, The Forge and NAPOLEON, 2023, Apple
Plays: Mr. Deschain - 50s; a rich, gay Brightonian caked in fake tan and tacky gold bling, Shaun - 41; working class mechanic, Mercy’s old mate and Shop Manager - 20s; prick.
ED Eales-White
Credits include: THE SPLIT, 2022, Sister, Giri/Haji, Sister Pictures and CASUALTY, 2022, BBC Studios
Plays: Narrator, Wilfred - 70s; Mercy’s dad, wind-rush generation, has growing dementia and Forensic Expert.
DAMIAN LYNCH
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IMPOSTOR ALERT
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YELLOW
Fela AKA Yellow is a high-functioning addict and gifted detective in the London Metropolitan Police who returns to his childhood home of Lagos to solve a series of murders, yet unravels something even deeper and darker.
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IRA
Talented actor/director Toby Kanu is facing studio pressure to turn his film Ira - a biopic of Ira Aldridge, the first black man to star on London’s West End - into yet another white savior epic. Scenes from the film are interwoven with Toby’s life as we see that the demons…
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RUN
In the midst of a surging pandemic, a mysterious virus has mutated into its deadliest form, turning the peaceful citizens of South Africa into bloodthirsty monsters.
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death & mercy
A struggling private investigator teams up with a homeless ex-soldier to track down a serial killer targeting Brighton’s homeless community. This is the story of two broken, underdog investigators at the bottom of their game who are thrown together in the case of their lives.
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yusuf’s wife
Yusuf is a charismatic and successful second-generation British Nigerian Muslim who's struggling to get over a bitter divorce from his very English ex-wife. Depressed and on a whim, he returns to Nigeria and asks his parents to find him a wife.
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sons of she
What if the ally you swore to defend abroad was the same enemy you had to fight at home? As an eclectic African “band of brothers” fight for the British Empire in WWI, their women wage their own monumental war against the same powers that conscripted their men.
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The Citadel
The story delves into the experiences that shaped two very different men and the motivations that drove them both to take violent action to create The Citadel, a Muslim “caliphate” in the heart of London.
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We Saw
A political thriller/conspiracy drama with a supernatural twist. Congolese born but English raised, ISSY ROSE has just stepped into her dream job as UK Ambassador to the politically ruptured and war-torn Congo (DRC.) Perhaps Issy’s purpose is much greater than she could have predicted.
