Hollyoaks and Foyle's War stars to feature in Accolade drama coming to Theatre Royal Windsor

Ayden Callaghan and Honeysuckle Weeks are set to lead the cast in Emlyn Williams’s drama Accolade.

Announced by Bill Kenwright Ltd together with Theatre Royal Windsor, it is the first play in this year’s Sean Mathias season.

Ayden Callaghan is best known for his roles as Joe Roscoe in Hollyoaks, Miles De Souza in Emmerdale and as Frank Farmer in last year’s UK tour of The Bodyguard The Musical.

Honeysuckle Weeks became popular on television for playing Sam Stewart in Foyle’s War.

She has just finished touring the UK in the role of Cora in Calendar Girls the Musical.

In Accolade, Ayden will play the protagonist Will Trenting, with Honeysuckle, his socially ambitious wife, Rona.

While Williams’s dark and sinister play originally stems back to 1950, the underlying tensions, coupled with the fragility of one’s personal reputation, make this play as relevant today as when it was initially written,

Completing the cast are David Phelan (Thane Lampeter), Jamie Hogarth (Albert) Sarah Crowe (Marian Tillyard), Louis Holand (Ian), Gavin Fowler (Harold), Sarah Twomey (Phyllis), Narinder Samra (Daker) and Kayleigh Cooper (Parlour Maid).

Accolade opens at the Theatre Royal Windsor on Friday, May 31 and will show until Saturday, June 15 before embarking on a UK tour over the summer.

The play will be followed this autumn with Felicity Kendal in the title role of Eduardo de Filippo’s Filumena, the second play to be directed by Sean Mathias this season.

Accolade will include set and costume design by Julie Godfrey, lighting design by Nick Richings and sound design by David Gregory.

Principal casting is undertaken by Jill Green CDG.