Meet the PLUS
Beverley Griffiths
Beverley has appeared in many plays here in Plymouth. With
mcgees2PLUS these have included PLYMOUTH-PLYMOUTH: SO
GOOD THEY NAMED IT TWICE and "MURDER!", SHE SHED.
Bev has also made two short films. Perfect World (on global
warming and For the Love of Barry (on the abolition of slavery)
and is keen to make more.
These have won both regional and national awards. Beverley will be seen shortly in The Ballad of Lucy Sands, now being edited. And to be released in the new year.
Carly Barnes
Carly trained at Drama Studio, London. She has performed in stage productions both at the Lab, Theatre Royal She Persisted, which won the Toast Fringe Award and at the Barbican Theatre Be Careful What You Wish For which also showed at the Barnstaple Fringe. She starred in Dominion (Dartington) and then toured with the play. At the Swindon Fringe this production won audience choice award. Carly has been in two mcgees2PLUS plays so far - PLYMOUTH-PLYMOUTH: SO GOOD THEY NAMED IT TWICE and "MURDER!", SHE SHED.
Carly was last seen at the Theatre Royal in the trilogy - Triptych
She also has numerous film credits to her name and her first feature film - Killing Lionel - has recently received international backing. So Hollywood here she comes...?
Judy Hardie
Judy moved to Plymouth sixteen years ago and hasn't stopped moving since! She’s been seen in many shows, rehearsed readings and poetry sessions. During that time she's only died once on stage and that was in the script when she had to choke on a chicken bone. Judy's most recent role was lead as her namesake in "MURDER!", SHE SHED which had some 16,000 words in it. Most of them being hers. She’s still in recovery, she says.
Vince Sutton
After moving to Plymouth some twelve years Vince
joined the Theatre Royal People's Company. He has
performed a number of times with them in the Drum -
his favourite role being Urgentio (The Doge) in Howard Barker's SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION. Other roles have included the Chaplain (Mother Courage, Dartington Players) and Hathorne (The Crucible, Tamaritans) and most recently YEZNO (Pilot's Thumb) He has also been in one mcgees2PLUS production so far "MURDER!", SHE SHED. Vince has appeared two productions at the STERTS theatre in Cornwall. As Sir Toby Belch in an adaptation of TWELTH NIGHT and as Monsieur Purgon in the HYPOCHONDRIAC - an adaptation of Moliere's play Le Malade Imaginaire. Vince was last seen dying on stage - quite literally - as Banquo at the Theatre Royal in Macbeth
Marilyn Warbis
Was described by the Plymouth Herald some
three years ago as being one of the city’s top fifty
women achievers
As a poet she’s performed around the
city winning several prizes for it and, together with Pete Cummings, has published a collection of poems - An Adventure Through Poetry. Her favourite form of writing is , she says, the short story or the short play.
er writing manages to reflect both her Cornish roots and the city which is now her home and she's written a trilogy which she's adapted into a play called Flames OF An Ancient Land
Has been performing his poetry on and
around the local Plymouth scene now for several
years. His poems are wry observations on local
life, and life in general, done with a twist of absurd humour. He has also written, and appeared in, a variety of his own sketches. Pete’s also somewhat an expert on Conan Doyle and a bit of a history buff. A full-length play of his – AMAZON - was performed here in Plymouth a few years back. Nothing to do with the trading behemoth, though! AMAZON – a modern day murder mystery - was set aboard a ship of the same name. The play straddles the centuries however for that ship had a forerunner – a real one - by the same name: later to be renamed the Marie Celeste. He and Marilyn Warbis are currently at work on a sequel - ECHOES OF THE PAST - with the action transposed to America.
Pete’s also in the process of a finalising another play -GAME, RESET AND MATCH – a thriller about AI and nanobot implants –so watch this space.
