Cast

Bridget Collins (Oona)

Bridget Collins trained at LAMDA after graduating from King’s College, Cambridge. Since leaving drama school her roles include Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and the title role in Antigone. Other parts include Euphranea in The Broken Heart (White Bear), Hessia in Dead Woman’s Music (Arcola Theatre), Giovanna/Girolamo in The Counterfeiters’ Tragedy (Lion and Unicorn) and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wycombe Swan). Bridget’s most recent role was Young Pip in Great Expectations (Brockley Jack). Film work includes Claire in Lacuna and Ruth in Ruth & Maggie, which premiered at the Slamdance Festival, and radio work includes Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4). Bridget is also a successful writer. Her first novel, The Traitor Game, was published in 2008 by Bloomsbury.

Adeel Akhtar (Mani)

Adeel Akhtar was hilarious as the most inept of the wannabe jihadists in Chris Morris’s Four Lions and he is is currently shooting The Dictator (Paramount Films) with Sasha Baron Cohen. He also appeared in the feature Traitor and has starred in a number of short films, including The Pope’s Face, which won the Audience Choice Award at the Millbrook International 3-Minute Film Festival. Adeel trained at the prestigious Actors Studio Drama School in New York, where his roles included Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Biff in Death of a Salesman. After graduation, Adeel played Khaled in Back of the Throat at New York’s Flea Theatre, for which he received praise both in Time Out and the New York Times. He toured the U.K. as Yusif in the Bollywood-style version of Wuthering Heights and played Zaaem in In My Name at the Trafalgar Studios. Adeel has has appeared in television dramas, such as Law and Order, and Conviction in the U.S. and Britz and Linda La Plante’s Trial and Retribution in the U.K. He recently won the BBC Radio Drama Norman Beaton Fellowship and has been a part of numerous BBC Radio plays.