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Maxine Peake

MAXINE PEAKE

  (1974 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    TROIKA  

Maxine Peake was born 14 July 1974 in Lancashire, in the North of England. She attended Westhoughton High School. She first became interested in acting at age 13, when she joined the Bolton Octagon Theatre's youth club. She graduated form Salford University and she also attended RADA, graduating in 1998. Maxine has a diverse TV CV, ranging from comedy in Dinnerladies, to comedy drama in Shameless, to playing child-killer Myra Hindley in See No Evil: The Moors Murders. In addition. Maxine has appeared extensively on the stage. n January 2014, Peake won the first Bolton Socialist Club Outstanding Contribution to Socialism Award for using her work to oppose the government's "crippling austerity measures"

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         Beryl         Contactless         Masque of Anarchy, The
Beryl

Beryl
I had a constant battle to get where I am today. Scrimping and scraping, people telling me not to do it, I couldn't do it. That my life wouldn't amount to very much. Now I might have had a bit of natural talent but I got here because of pure determination and persistence. Stubbornness you might say. I always went that extra mile, pushed myself that bit harder than anyone else and never took anything for granted. It was 1954 when Beryl Charnock met keen cyclist Charlie Burton. In those days they cycled in clubs and once Beryl started she was smitten, not only with Charlie, but by the thrill and freedom found on two wheels. Beryl was better than good, she was the best, and she was determined to stay that way. Beryl Burton was five times world-pursuit champion, thirteen times national champion, twice road-racing world champion and twelve times national champion. Her accolades include time trials, former world-record holder, former British record-holder, numerous sports awards an MBE and an OBE. Burton was one of the most astonishing sports people ever to have lived, but she remains something of a mystery. Beryl, which celebrates the extraordinary sporting achievements of this inspirational cyclist, has been specially commissioned as an adaptation from Maxine Peake's acclaimed 2012 Radio 4

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new version for the stage of her radio play

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biographical play

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Contactless

Synopsis:
One Hand Tied Behind Us takes place just after International Women's Day and marks 100 years since the 1918 Representation of the People Act gave the first women in Britain the right to vote. Curated by Maxine Peake, this special one-off performance of monologues will explore key moments in the history of women's rights in the UK, and look forward to the future of the fight for equality.

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part of 'One Hand Tied Behind Us'

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Monologue

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Masque of Anarchy, The

Synopsis:
On 16 August 1819, riven by poverty and disaffected at the lack of assistance offered by the state, 60,000 Mancunians gathered at St Peter's Field to campaign for parliamentary reform. People came in peaceful protest: men, women and children, carrying picnics and wearing their Sunday best  but that didn't deter local magistrates from sending an armed cavalry to disperse the crowds and arrest the speakers, killing 15 protestors and injuring hundreds more. A touchstone event in British history, the Peterloo Massacre and the outrage it spurred ultimately helped to bring about the formation of the trade union movement and the reform of parliamentary democracy. On hearing of the massacre, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned the Masque of Anarchy, an indelibly powerful 91-verse epic widely regarded as the greatest political poem in British history.

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For MIF, actress Maxine Peake (Shameless, Silk) and director Sarah Frankcom (Artistic Director, Royal Exchange Theatre) will deliver a haunting, provocative new interpretation of this landmark work, as relevant to post-riot, mid-recession Britain as it was when it was first written. the Masque of Anarchy will be staged in the atmospheric Albert Hall, mere steps from the site of the massacre itself.

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Albert Hall, Peter Street, Manchester M2 5Qj     12 Jul 2013

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Manchester International festival

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