The Revlon Girl
By Neil Anthony Docking, Directed by Maxine Evans
Since it’s inaugural performance in 2016, The Revlon Girl has grown from an unknown work to one of the most talked about plays in recent years; enjoying overwhelming critical praise and audience acclaim- not just in the UK but also internationally.
Neil Anthony Docking’s funny, moving and deeply compassionate drama based on events following the Aberfan Disaster tells the remarkable true story of the mothers who met above the Aberfan Hotel every Tuesday night — where they could talk, cry and laugh without feeling guilty — and who, one evening, secretly invited a representative from Revlon to give them beauty tips.
With an impressive all-female cast, this Olivier-nominated production first found success during its inaugural tour in Wales during the 50th Anniversary Year of the Aberfan Disaster; soon finding itself to be a smash hit at the Edinburgh Festival before transferring to a sell-out London run.
Along the way it picked up no fewer than 5 Off-West End Nominations (including ‘Best Production’ and bringing home the Offie for ‘Best New Play’); an Olivier Nomination for ‘Outstanding Achievement’.
Nearside Productions Ltd in association with Park Theatre present the original, Olivier nominated production.
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Evenings
19.00
Thu & Sat15.15
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Duration
90 minutes (no interval)
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Tickets
£20 - £35
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Genre
Drama
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Age guidance
16+
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Content warnings
Contains references to Aberfan disaster of 1966
In the press
"Cast perform as a perfectly coordinated ensemble throughout"
WhatsOnStage
"A visionary new play"
Mike Wade, The Times
"A remarkably warm, sorrowful, and at times even funny drama "
The Independent
"It is, at times, extraordinary"
Ian Foster, There Ought To Be Clowns
"I shall never forget the play"
The Observer
"Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre"
2018 Olivier Awards Nominee
"Best New Play"
2018 Off-West End Award Winner
"Play of the Year"
Wales Arts Review
Cast & Creatives
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Llinos Daniel
Jean
Llinos Daniel
Jean
Llinos trained at Royal Holloway University of London and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
TV & Film credits include: Hamlet (BKL Productions with Sir Ian McKellen), Wolf (Hartswood Films), Hinterland (Hinterland Films) Zanzibar, Emyn Roc a Rôl (S4C), Pobol y Cwm, Stepping Up, Torchwood and Not Getting Any (BBC).
Theatre credits include several productions with National Theatre Wales, Lighthouse Theatre, Vienna’s English Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre, Sherman Theatre and King’s Head Theatre.
As an Associate Creative with Theatr na nÓg, she recently revisited the role of Angela in Eye of the Storm, a new musical with music by Amy Wadge. She’s worked with productions on UK Tours, in South America and Hong Kong. Llinos worked with Sir Ian McKellen on Hamlet & The Cherry Orchard at Theatre Royal, Windsor. She played Mam in A Prayer for Wings and Swansea Boy, written and directed by Sean Mathias. She recently played Ilsa in a staged radio play of Casablanca. For the Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford, Llinos played Gertrude in Hamlet and most recently was Queen Elizabeth in Richard III.
Llinos also works as a director. Productions include The Butterfly Hunter, the new musical Turning the Wheel and a new play by Malcolm Pryce – O Little Town of Aberystwyth.
Llinos is also a singer and harpist and is the director of Black Mountain Voices.
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Hedydd Dylan
Maralyn
Hedydd Dylan
Maralyn
Born in Aberystwyth and farmer’s daughter at that, Hedydd’s ambition to be portrait painter gave way to a career in acting and she trained The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Headlong/Shakespeare’s Globe); The Comedy of Errors, Oppenheimer, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Bartholomew Fair (Shakespeare’s Globe); Mother Courage (Headlong/Royal Exchange); The Cherry Orchard (Sherman Theatre); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Sheffield Theatre/ETT); Flare Path (Original Theatre); The Oresteia (Home Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Cheek by Jowl); King Lear (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne); As You Like It, Taming of The Shrew, Pygmalion (for which Hedydd received an Ian Charleson Award), Arden of Faversham, Under Milk Wood, Noises Off, Dancing at Lughnasa, Rape of The Fair Country (Theatre Clwyd); Punishment Without Revenge, Lady of Little Sense, Don Gil of the Green Breeches (Bath Theatre Royal/Arcola); Mother of Frankenstein (National Theatre of Brussels).
TV includes: Beth (Channel 4); FBI International (CBS/Universal/Wolf Entertainment); Wolf (ITV); Sister Boniface Mysteries (BBC); Bregus (Fiction Factory / S4C), Bang Series 2 (S4C), Emmerdale (ITV), Hinterland (BBC); Pobl Y Cwm (S4C).
Film includes: Love is Thicker Than Water (Blue Shadows films/Barnsbury pictures); Godard and Others (New Troy productions)
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Charlotte Gray
Sian
Charlotte Gray
Sian
Charlotte was born in Nantyglo, South Wales, and trained at the National Theatre of Wales and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Her theatre credits include Sprinkles for Dirty Protest, Under the Influence and Early Doors for Not Too Tame Theatre, and she was a member of the Theatre Clwyd Company, where her productions included Under Milk Wood, A Small Family Business, and An Inspector Calls. Her screen credits include The Crown, Stella, and Baker Boys.
Charlotte is delighted to reprise the role of Sian in The Revlon Girl, a production she is incredibly proud to be part of. Having been on this remarkable journey for a decade, she feels honoured to continue telling the inspiring story of these phenomenal women.
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Mirain Haf Roberts
Rona
Mirain Haf Roberts
Rona
Mirain Haf Roberts was raised in Bangor, North Wales. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music and studied Acting Shakespeare at RADA.
Her theatre credits include Truth or Dare (Theatr Clwyd), Double Drop(Dirty Protest Theatre), Nyrsys (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru), Hwyliau’n Codi and Dros y Top (Theatr Bara Caws), and Cariad Mr Bustl (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru).
Her television credits include Ista’n Bwl, Cei Bach, Dim ond y Gwir, Porth Penwaig, and Rownd a Rownd. She has also voiced numerous animated series, including Octonauts, Noddy, and Fifi and the Flowertots.
For radio, Mirain portrayed Beth in Rhiannon Boyle’s BBC Radio Cymru drama Lysh and Debbie in the long-running radio series Rhydeglwys.
Alongside her acting career, Mirain is an accomplished musician. She has recorded and toured with Gruff Rhys, appearing on his critically acclaimed albums Babelsberg (2018) and Seeking New Gods (2021), and is a member of the award-winning band 9Bach.
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Antonia Kinlay
Revlon
Antonia Kinlay
Revlon
Antonia is delighted to be returning to The Revlon Girl for it’s 10th Anniversary run.
She trained at RADA alongside Hedydd Dylan, and they later appeared together in As You Like It at Theatr Clwyd, with Antonia playing Celia to Hedydd’s Rosalind.
Recent television credits include Man Vs Baby, The Devil’s Hour and Sister Boniface Mysteries, with other screen work including Strike: Career of Evil.
Theatre credits include Bad Jews (Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour and Theatre Royal Haymarket), Arms and the Man, As You Like It (Theatr Clwyd), The Suicide (National Theatre), Lady Anna: All at Sea (Park Theatre), Three Lions (St James Theatre) and Stripped (King’s Head Theatre).
Antonia first appeared in The Revlon Girl in 2017, from its opening at Pontardawe Arts Centre through to the Edinburgh Festival and its subsequent Olivier-nominated run at Park Theatre.
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Neil Anthony Docking
Writer
Neil Anthony Docking
Writer
Neil Anthony Docking was born in South Wales and studied music at the University of Westminster before finding work as a writer in press, television, radio and film (credits include: The Guardian, Emmerdale, Casualty, Station Road, Nuts & Bolts, TVCC, Station Road, Without a Song or a Dance, Crossroads, The Throne Room and Rain).
His first play for theatre, The Revlon Girl, received an Olivier Nomination in 2017 following a win at the Off-West End Awards for Best New Play.
He is married to the actor/director Maxine Evans and lives in London.
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Maxine Evans
Director
Maxine Evans
Director
Maxine studied classical acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has worked as an actor, writer, series editor and director in television, film and theatre.
She directed Without a Song or a Dance (shortlisted Best Director at the Cork Film Festival) Nuts & Bolts (ITV/RTS Award winner), Rain (a Feature Film Musical), Storyline and The Jigsaw Room while her writing/series editor credits include Coronation Street, Crossroads and Nuts & Bolts (ITV).
As an actor Maxine continues to appear regularly on television- most notably in BBC’s Call The Midwife, A Song For Jenny and as the indomitable ‘Rhian’ in Sky 1’s hit comedy Stella. Most recently she has appeared in Torchwood, Doctor Who, Steeltown Murders, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? and alongside Colin Firth in Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
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