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Attic Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of
Beacons
Julie | Tessa Peake-Jones
Bernard | Paul Kemp
Skye | Emily Burnett
Biographies
Julie | Tessa Peake-Jones
Tessa Peake Jones trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Perhaps best known for playing Raquel in the award-winning BBC series Only Fools and Horses, Tessa’s theatre credits include: Home, Brimstone and Treacle (Arcola Theatre); Park Avenue Cats (Arts Theatre, West End); The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder (National Theatre); Shirley Valentine(Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke); The Park (RSC); Crossing The Equator (Bush Theatre); Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors(RSC); Pride and Prejudice (Leicester Haymarket and Old Vic).
Television credits include: Grantchester, Poirot, Unforgotten; Legacy, Dalziel and Pascoe, Lost World, Waking the Dead, Holby City, Fish, Tom Jones, Pride and Prejudice, Casualty, What the Butler Saw, The Bell, Quartermaine’sTerms, Doctors, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Poppy Shakespeare, Midsummer Murders.
Film credits include: Bonobo (Fable Films); The Devil Went Down to Islington (Reelscape Films); First Night (Scorpio Films).
Tessa is also a regular radio broadcaster and a founder member of Tight Assets Theatre Company.
Bernard | Paul Kemp
Theatre includes: Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC); Ghost Stories (Arts Theatre, West End); To Sir With Love (Royal & Derngate/UK tour); Seven Year Twitch (Orange Tree Theatre); The Wind In The Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Lady in The Van (Hull Truck/UK Tour); How to Be Happy (Orange Tree Theatre); The Lady From The Sea (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Crucible, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); My Wonderful Day (Stephen Joseph Theatre/New York/UK Tour); Woman in Mind (Vaudeville Theatre, West End); Year of the Rat (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Absent Friends (Salisbury Playhouse); How The Other Half Loves (The Peter Hall Co.); The Flint Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse); Hobson’s Choice (Watermill Theatre); Monkey’s Uncle (Orange Tree); Private Fears in Public Places (Stephen Joseph Theatre /Orange Tree Theatre/New York); The Champion of Paribanou, Drowning on Dry Land, This is Where We Came In, Hobson’s Choice (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Murmuring Judges, Racing Demon, The Absence of War (Birmingham Rep); The Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Birmingham Rep); Naked Justice (Birmingham Rep/ West Yorkshire Playhouse /UK Tour); Way Upstream (Derby Playhouse); The Cassilis Engagement, The Last Thrash, The Way of the World, A Wife Without a Smile, Court in the Act, Lips Together Teeth Apart (Orange Tree Theatre).
Television includes: Life on Mars, Black Books, Maxwell, The Trial of Tony Blair, TLC, The Bill, Doctors, On The Game and Dream Team.
Skye | Emily Burnett
Theatre includes: Rdeca in First Love is the Revolution (Soho Theatre); Pinocchio in Pinocchio (Midsummer Festival Company); Fairy in Iolanthe (Concept Players); Mina in Unga Bunga (Stage Daze).
Television includes: Safiya in Its My Shout (BBC Wales); Charlie in Sweet Sixteen/It’s My Shout (BBC Wales); Daisy Water Rat in The Sparticle Mystery (CBBC);