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The BBC is about to premier a new bilingual thriller which puts the deaf community at the heart of the story.

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.

Hell-bent on revenge after being released from prison, Brennan must choose between vengeance and redemption through his relationship with his daughter.

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.

Gurney said: “Reunion is an amazing storyline and is completely different from my previous work.

“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.

“It shows how deaf people react and act on screen in an honest and authentic way.

“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.”

Reunion is the story of a man called Daniel Brennan.

He was convicted of killing his best friend Ray and had has just been released from prison after serving 10 years.

His imprisonment has seen him lose his family, his friends and his connection to the deaf community.

Now he’s on a journey of revenge.

But that journey changes course after he is reunited with his daughter

William Mager, the show’s creator, said: “It starts as a typical story of revenge, and then it becomes something bigger and more powerful.

“Reunion also shows the power of the deaf community.

“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.

“It was interesting for us to explore this and how you deal with being rejected by the community that you love.”

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.

Speaking about his character, Gurney said: “My character has just been released from prison.

“He’s finally free, out of isolation.

“However, when he gets out, he finds that he is still isolated.

“He is on a journey to try to reunite with various people and solve the problems of his past.”

Gurney is known for playing Dave in the television series Coffee Morning Club and Mitch in Small World.

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, daughter of Daniel Brennan.

Talking about her character, Peake said: “At the start of the series, Carly is working in a cafe.

“She doesn’t have much money, her living situation isn’t great, her mum’s died, so she’s totally isolated.

“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.”

Television audiences will have recently seen Peake in the Disney+ series Rivals as Daysee Butler.

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)

Anne-Marie Duff plays Christine Mokhtar, widow of murdered man Ray.

Duff said: “Christine is a very interesting woman.

“She’s had this dreadful thing happen to her and is coming out of the woods and into the sunlight again in terms of getting through it all.

“And then the past comes back in this really Freudian way, so I thought that was fascinating.”

The Bafta award-wining actress, 54, has starred in Wild West, Shameless, The Virgin Queen, The History of Mr Polly, Watership Down, His Dark Materials, Sex Education, Suspect and Bad Sisters.

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 plays Stephen Renworth, a retired police officer.

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.

“Interestingly, Stephen does hold a dark secret himself, and he has a moral dilemma of whether to tell the truth or to keep quiet.”

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.

On film, he has appeared in Gangs of New York, Vera Drake, Mission: Impossible III, Miami Vice, Pierrepoint, Happy-Go-Lucky, Sherlock Holmes, Tyrannosaur, War Horse, The Gentlemen and Back to Black.

The cast of Reunion also includes:

Reunion is set in Sheffield, which was home to the show’s creator and lead wrier William Mager.

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He said: “What I wanted to do was write a love letter to my hometown, Sheffield.

“To show those amazing locations that I remember from my childhood but also show that there’s a strong deaf community here in Sheffield.

“We’ve used a lot of deaf people who live and work here as part of Reunion, which was important for me.

“I grew up here and I lived here for 22 years.

“One thing I always loved about Sheffield was the contrast.

“The centre of town has lots of old buildings from the industrial past, the steel industry, and then five minutes’ drive out of the centre and you’re in the countryside, it’s beautiful, it’s green and the contrast of that is so surprising for me.”

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.

Some filming also took place in the nearby city of Doncaster.

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)

Mark Herbert, executive producer, said: “One of the things that was amazing in this production was that it’s not just showing the grimy bits of Sheffield that are often shown on TV, but it’s actually showing the beauty in the Peak District.

“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?

Reunion starts on BBC One on Monday 7 April at 9pm.

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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