Vicky Entwistle and Chris Gascoyne cast in Little Voice revival

Former Coronation Street actors Vicky Entwistle and Chris Gascoyne will star alongside Nancy Sullivan in an upcoming revival of Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

A co-production between West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, it opens in Birmingham on 15 May before transferring to the Playhouse on 5 June.

Nancy Sullivan stars as LV, a painfully shy girl with a bold and beautiful voice, whose blowsy mother Mari (Vicky Entwistle), shrieks and shouts her way around the house, all-the-while Chris Gascoyne's Ray Say engineers his escape from small town showbiz to the bright lights of the big-time.

The cast also features Joanna Brookes, Brendan Charleson and Tendayi Jembere.

Director James Brining said: "There is a wonderful poetry to this play and the relationships Jim creates between his extraordinary characters are funny and moving. I can't wait to explore this in the rehearsal room with a great company of actors."