Reunion is a four-part revenge thriller, told in spoken English and British Sign Language, through the perspective of Daniel Brennan, a deaf man who becomes isolated from society both physically and emotionally.
Written and created by Sheffield-born deaf writer William Mager, it stars Matthew Gurney, Lara Peake, Anne-Marie Duff, Eddie Marsan and Rose Ayling-Ellis.
“My character Brennan is on a wildly different journey than that portrayed by normal deaf lives, this portrays a man who is hated within the deaf community.
“We are different to hearing actors, we are so much more visual storytellers, it’s not about relying on sound it’s about using your eyes and seeing what is going on in the story.”
Lara Peake and Matthew Gurney star as fatehr and daughter in Reunion (Photo: Matt Squire/BBC/Warp Films)He was convicted of killing his best friend Ray and had has just been released from prison after serving 10 years.
Now he’s on a journey of revenge.
William Mager, the show’s creator, said: “It starts as a typical story of revenge, and then it becomes something bigger and more powerful.
“It can be a place of safety where you feel you can be your authentic self, but when Brennan’s excluded from that, it becomes a very different thing for him, something more judgmental and claustrophobic, they’ve turned against him.
Who is in the cast of Reunion?
Matthew Gurney leads the cast as Daniel Brennan (Photo: Matt Squire/BBC/Warp Films)
Matthew Gurney leads the cast as Daniel Brennan, released from prison after serving 10 years for killing his best friend.
“He’s finally free, out of isolation.
“He is on a journey to try to reunite with various people and solve the problems of his past.”
He also appeared as Berowne in the 21012 British Sign language version of Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Lara Peake
Lara Peake stars as Carly Brennan, Daniel’s daughter (Photo: Matt Squire/BBC/Warp Films)Talking about her character, Peake said: “At the start of the series, Carly is working in a cafe.
“With her dad going to prison, she’s been isolated from the deaf community that she grew up in as well because she’s a Coda, which means she’s hearing but was born to deaf adults.”
She has also appeared in Halo, The English Game, Born to Kill and the film How to Have Sex.
Anne-Marie Duff plays Christine Mokhtar (Photo: Matt Squire/BBC/Warp Films)
Duff said: “Christine is a very interesting woman.
“And then the past comes back in this really Freudian way, so I thought that was fascinating.”
On film, she has appeared in Enigma, The Magdalene Sisters, Notes on a Scandal, Nowhere Boy, Suffragette and On Chesil Beach.
Eddie Marsan
Eddie Marsan stars as Stephen Renworth, a retired police officer (Photo: Matt Squire/BBC/Warp Films)Marsan said: “Stephen is a retired police officer who is starting a relationship with Anne-Marie’s character Christine, whose husband was murdered by Brennan all those years ago.
The award-winning actor, 56, will be well known to television audiences as Terry Donovan from the series Ray Donovan. He has also starred as Gilbert Norrell in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and appeared in The Pact, The Thief, HIs Wife and the Canoe, The Power and Heartstopper.
The cast of Reunion also includes:
Rose Ayling-Ellis as Miri Mokhtar (Ludwig, EastEnders) Olive Gray as Anna Shenford (Halo, Save Me) Sophie Stone as Naomi Brennan (The Chelsea Detective, Shetland) Michael Culkin as Monroe (Towards Zero, Dalgleish, Bridgerton, The Crown) Joe Sims as Joe Summers (Broadchurch, Doctor Who) Robert Rhodes as Dexter (Master of the Air, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?) Stephen Collins as Sean (Dune: Part One, Sliced) Jean-Pascal Heynemand as young Monroe (A Gentleman in Moscow, Funny Woman)Read Next
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He said: “What I wanted to do was write a love letter to my hometown, Sheffield.
“We’ve used a lot of deaf people who live and work here as part of Reunion, which was important for me.
“One thing I always loved about Sheffield was the contrast.
Filming took place in Sheffield and Doncaster (Photo: Matt Squire/BBC/Warp Films)Hell’s Kitchen Diner was the backdrop for some scenes (Photo: Joshua Carver/BBC/Warp Films)
Filming took place around the South Yorkshire city, famed for its steel industry, including at South Street Park, outside Sheffield City Hall, at Hell’s Kitchen Diner on East Bank Road and Tapton Hall near Crosspool.
And areas of the Peak District also feature heavily in the show, in contrast to the urban shots, including Winnats Pass.
The Peak District had a starring role in the series (Photo: Matt Squire/ BBC/Warp Films)“Billy wanted to show Sheffield’s beauty as well as its industrial heart and I love that contrast.”
When is Reunion on and how many episodes are there?
It is the first of a four-part series, with the second episode shown on Tuesday 8 April and then the remaining two on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 April.
All four episodes will also be available to stream on the BBC iPlayer.
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