Play to shed light on injustices facing women

The Belgrade Theatre has announced that Midlands writer Frankie Meredith 's May Queen, which premiered last summer, will be re-staged in-the-round in the B2 auditorium from Saturday 25 June to Saturday 2 July.

Directed by Balisha Karra, one of the Belgrade 's three co-artistic directors for the City of Culture Year, May Queen will see Yasmin Dawes reprise the role of Leigh - a 16-year-old chosen as May Queen who digs deep within her past and Coventry 's history to ask how she got there and how does she get out.

Balisha Karra said: "I hope for the new iteration of May Queen to continue to shed light on the micro and macro injustices womxn face in society today.

“I have a desire to heal and know May Queen is a story that many, like I, can relate to. I continue to heal from my own lived injustices and I am choosing to do so by sharing a story I feel I can no longer carry on my own. I hope to direct May Queen from a place of honouring and liberation."

May Queen is presented by the Belgrade Theatre in co-production with Paines Plough, supported by Coventry City of Culture Trust.

Tickets for May Queen are available by phoning the Box Office on 024 7655 3055 (phone lines open 10:30am - 2pm, Mon - Sat), or visiting www.belgrade.co.uk where tickets are even cheaper.

Pictured: Yasmin Dawes, Balisha Karra, Frankie Meredith (photo credit: Joe Bailey)