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  1. May 19, 2022 · At the centre is Anne-Marie Duff’s passionate, angry, desolate matriarch Constance, a thwarted singer, who blazes with indignation at the shabby hand life has dealt her and retreats into...

  2. May 20, 2022 · Constance, abused by her father, prevented from going to grammar school, bored and frustrated by marriage to kindly trade unionist Alastair (Stuart McQuarrie) is a magnetic, deeply recognisable...

  3. May 23, 2022 · Constance’s mother Edith (Carol Macready) is a widow and worships the memory of her husband by cradling his overcoat, whom Constance remembers as a cruel man who abused her physically by beating her with the metal buckle of a leather belt.

  4. Anne-Marie Duff (born 8 October 1970) is an English actress and narrator. After graduating from Drama Centre London, Duff made television appearances in Trial & Retribution, Amongst Women and Aristocrats in the late 1990s.

  5. Duff was attracted to the role of the damaged and damaging matriarch Constance at least partly because it focuses attention on a stratum of society rarely depicted on stage – and because it ...

  6. May 18, 2022 · Duff’s Constance craves glamour and excitement; her conversation is about Hollywood stars like Bette Davis and Rita Johnson while her waking state is continually heightened by a cocktail of booze and songs from the movies.

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  8. May 18, 2022 · The bulk of the discord falls to Constance and Alistair’s son Jack (Michael Grady-Hall), a onetime Communist who finds himself marrying a Tory named Helen, and his embittered sister Agnes (Kelly Gough), whom we also encounter as their teenage selves.