21 Sep | Brixton House | BOOK NOW
Sutara Gayle & director Jo McInnes (pictured) on the making of the show, in conversation with Martina Laird.
This special event is in honour of the world premiere of The Legends of Them by Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee, which opens at Brixton House from 14-30 September.
ABOUT
Sutara Gayle is a British-Jamaican actress with a wealth of credits spanning the last 3 decades across both drama & comedy. In 2023 she can be seen playing Gemma Whiteley in the Britbox/BBC One crime drama series Magpie Murders and she’s due to star in the new season of Outlander, Supacell and Black Cake. In 2022 she starred in the 5th series of the BBC’s popular crime drama Strike. She has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed BBC shows such as hit comedy Ghosts, Silent Witness, the Jimmy McGovern BAFTA nominated drama Anthony and played Linda in Steve McQueen’s Golden Globe winning Small Axe. Her theatre credits include Paradise (National Theatre), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre), A Tale of Two Cities (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Savoy Theatre and UK tour), and At the Table and Almost Nothing (Royal Court Theatre). For film, Viral, Anthony, Carmilla, A Caribbean Dream, SuperBob, The Dark Night and Run Fatboy Run.
As Lorna Gee, she is the 2012 BEFFTA and HiCrEc award winner for outstanding contribution to reggae music. The 1985 smash hit ‘Gotta Find a Way’ placed her at the top of the Reggae charts for 6 weeks for which she received recognition with two BBC Radio London Reggae Awards for Best Female Artist 1985 and 1986. Lorna has been crowned one of the Queens of Lovers Rock with fellow singers Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson. She was presented with the prestigious Lovers Rock Gala Award for her contribution to Lovers Rock music at The Brixton Academy in 2008.
Martina Laird is a Trinidadian British actor and director probably best known for portraying popular character Comfort Jones on BBC’s flagship drama Casualty – in her five years on the show she won two acting awards for the role.
Since 2016, performances in several Shakespeare plays: The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest and Henry IV, Coriolanus and All’s Well That Ends Well. In 2019, Laird appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, alongside Lenny Henry, at Stratford East.
More recently, Martina played the role of Lashana in Disney’s live action remake of The Little Mermaid, and was part of the cast of Sharon Horgan’s Sky Atlantic TV show Dreamland.
Jo McInnes directs. Jo McInnes is an actor, director and the Associate Director of Hackney Showroom. She is currently playing the Nurse in Rebecca Freknell’s Romeo & Juliet at the Almeida. Recent credits include: Medea (Soho Place), The Corn is Green (National Theatre); The Jungle (Old Vic, West End, St Ann’s Warehouse).
As director credits include: For All The Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Hackney Showroom) The Hardest Rain (The Old Vic), 36 Phone Calls (Hampstead Theatre), Another Place (Theatre Royal Plymouth), I Can Hear You (RSC and Royal Court Theatre), Carpe Diem (National Theatre), Running on Empty (Soho Theatre), Vera, Vera, Vera, Red Bud (Royal Court Theatre), Christmas (Bush Theatre). Her television credits include The Verdict.