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Mayflies is a two-part British television drama series starring Martin Compston and Tony Curran, adapted by Andrea Gibb from Andrew O'Hagan's 2020 novel of the same name, and directed by Peter Mackie Burns.




Synopsis


Tully and Jimmy have been friends since 1986 after meeting in Scotland. Thirty years later, Jimmy received a heartbreaking phone call from Tully that he has terminal cancer.




Cast


Martin Compston as Jimmy
Rian Gordon as Young Jimmy
Tony Curran as Tully
Tom Glynn-Carney as Young Tully
Ashley Jensen as Anna
Tracy Ifeachor as Iona
Paul Gorman as Young Hogg
Matt Littleson as Limbo
Cal MacAninch - Tibbs
Mitchell Robertson as Young Tibbs
Elaine C Smith - Barbara
Charlene Boyd as young Barbara
Shauna Macdonald - Fiona
Colin McCredie - Scott




Production


The BBC announced the project in August 2022. Set and filmed in Scotland, Synchronicity Films were announced to be producing for the BBC. Compston described the process of adapting an acclaimed novel “terrifying” while Curran said they had tried to “honour” the book.




Broadcast


The first episode of Mayflies aired in the UK on BBC One on Wednesday, December 28 at 9pm, the second episode the following day at the same time.




Reception


The Financial Times reviewed a “thoughtful exploration of how death liberates the soon-to-be deceased, and devastates those left behind” with an “array of stirring performances”. The Guardian described it as “beautifully told” whilst “Curran is deeply moving as a man who refuses to let death have the last laugh, with Ashley Jensen as his firecracker wife Anna.”




References






External links


Mayflies at IMDb

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