Martin Compston's model new Scottish BBC drama is about to air right now, because it tells a narrative of friendship, love, and loyalty.
The Line of Responsibility star will probably be again on screens from Tuesday night time (December 27) as he stars within the TV adaptation of Scots writer Andrew O'Hagan's e-book of the identical identify, which gained Waterstones Scottish E book of the 12 months 2021. The Greenock-born actor, 38, lately known as the collection "by far essentially the most emotionally difficult job I’ve ever completed".
The collection will tug on viewers heartstrings as an homage to life lengthy friendship, and has been described as an "intimate and devastating portrait of male friendship".
Mayflies was tailored by Andrea Gibb (Elizabeth Is Lacking) and directed by Peter Mackie Burns (Rialto).
Here is all the pieces it is advisable learn about Martin Compston's new drama..
Who stars in Mayflies?
The complete forged for Mayflies is as follows:
- Martin Compston as Jimmy
- Tony Curran as Tully
- Ashley Jensen as Anna
- Tracy Ifeachor as Iona
- Rian Gordon as Younger Jimmy
- Tom Glynn-Carney as Younger Tully
- Paul Gorman as Younger Hogg
- Mitchell Robertson as Younger Tibbs
- Elaine C Smith as Barbara
- Shauna Macdonald as Fiona
- Cal MacAninch as Tibbs
- Colin McCredie as Scott
- Matt Littleson as Younger Limbo
What's Mayflies about?
Mayflies inform the heartbreakingly beautiful story of friendship, love, and loyalty. The present is predicated on the 2020 novel of the identical identify by Scots writer Andrew O'Hagan, and showcases the lifelong friendship of Jimmy and Tully.
The official synopsis for the collection says: "Everybody has a Tully Dawson (Tony Curran) - the pal who defines your life. In the summertime of 1986, in a small Scottish city, Jimmy (Martin Compston) and Tully ignite a superb friendship primarily based on music, movies and the insurgent spirit.
"With faculty over and the locked world of their fathers earlier than them, they rush in the direction of the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicentre of all the pieces that evokes them in working-class Britain. There, towards the best soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life in another way.
"Thirty years on, half a life away, the telephone rings. Tully has the worst sort of information, and a request that can take a look at their friendship, love, and loyalty to the restrict...
"Mayflies is a memorial to youth’s euphoria and to on a regular basis tragedy. A young goodbye to an outdated union, it discovers the enjoyment and the prices of affection."
The place was Mayflies filmed?
Mayflies was filmed throughout Glasgow and Ayrshire between August - October this 12 months. Movie crews have been snapped descended on the picturesque Ayrshire areas together with Greenan Shore and Troon's Ballast Financial institution to begin taking pictures the BBC drama.
Trailers have been noticed at Ayr Esplanade with movie crews pictured at Queens Terrace automobile park close to the Horizon Lodge. The filming commenced in Troon in September, as crews filmed in and round Titchfield Highway, Craig Highway, Ballast Financial institution, Ailsa Highway, Wooden Highway, and Kenned Highway.
In addition to photographs throughout Ayrshire, Martin Compston and After Life star Ashley Jensen have been noticed filming in a Govan pub. Workers on the Brechins Bar shared some photographs of their expertise having the pair in for filming.
They wrote: "Thrilling instances final week after we had some filming happening with Martin Compston & Ashley Jensen!!"
Filming crews have been additionally noticed on location at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow on the finish of September. Each Martin and Tony Curran have been filming scenes at Charles Rennie Waterproof coat's masterpiece mansion, Home for an Artwork Lover.
After wrapping the filming of Mayflies in early October, Martin took to social media to reward the manufacturing and share behind the scenes snaps. He wrote: "Wrap on ‘Mayflies’! No doubt essentially the most emotionally charged scripts I’ve ever had pleasure of engaged on.
"Improbable forged and crew as ever in because of @synchronicityfilms for having me. Props to the one and solely @tonycurran for main the cost., sensational efficiency from essentially the most effervescent nuisance you might ever hope to return throughout."
Unique novelist Andrew O’Hagan mentioned of the collection: “The story is a really private one to me, and it’s wonderful to see the characters come to life in Andrea Gibb’s fantastic adaptation. Director Peter Mackie Burns has a singular imaginative and prescient, and I stay up for seeing what he makes of the Ayrshire panorama and the emotional actuality of this story.”
When is Mayflies launched and the way can I watch?
Mayflies will probably be made up of two components and is about to air over two nights throughout the Christmas interval.
Scottish viewers will get to see the drama a day early, as the primary episode will air on BBC Scotland at 10pm on Tuesday, December 27 and the second will air on the channel at 10pm the next day.
For different UK viewers, the primary episode will air at 9pm on BBC One on Wednesday, December 28, whereas the second will air at some point after, at 9pm on Thursday, December 29.
Mayflies airs on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 9pm on December 27 and 28 2022.
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