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Zawe Ashton, Hayley Squires And Daniel Mays Land Leads In BBC Adaptation Of ‘Maryland’Lucy Kirkwood’s play Maryland is being adapted for the BBC and Zawe Ashton (Fresh Meat), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) and Daniel Mays (Des, Line of Duty) have landed the lead roles.

The 30-minute adaptation of the Royal Court play will be called Mary and air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer on July 20. Kirkwood and doc director Brian Hill are co-directors on the story, which is billed as a “artistic response to recent real-life events” such as the murders of British women Sarah Everard, Bibaa Henry, Nicole Smallman and Sabina Nessa, grappling with the violence facing women in their everyday lives.

Ashton and Squires play women both called Mary who meet at a police station in the aftermath of their respective sexual assaults.

Kirkwood said: “I wrote the original play as a howl against the way we have normalised violence against women as something to be accommodated by women themselves, rather than protested by all of us… I hope the film will give new oxygen to that protest, but I wish it was not still such an urgent conversation.”Delphine Ernotte-Cunci And Petr Dvořák Re-Elected To EBU Posts France Télévisions CEO Delphine Ernotte-Cunci and Czech Television Director General Petr Dvořák have been re-elected European Broadcasting Union (EBU) President and Vice-President, respectively.