Honeysuckle Weeks in 'Accolade'

Honeysuckle Weeks has just finished touring the UK in the role of Cora in 'Calendar Girls the Musical', but keeps busy in 2024. Next, as of the end of May 2024, she will appear in 'Accolade'. Honeysuckle Weeks will play Rona Trenting, socially ambitious wife of celebrated writer, Will Trenting, played by Ayden Callaghan.

Behind the prestigious façade of a celebrated writer, Will Trenting (played by Ayden Callaghan) lies a web of deception and dark desires ready to unravel his carefully constructed life…

Step into the vibrant world of London’s intellectual elite, where the price of success is often too high to pay.

Accolade follows the life of a celebrated writer on the verge of receiving a much-coveted award for his work. A gripping tale of ambition, scandal, and the harsh realities that lie beneath the surface of success.

With razor-sharp dialogue, poignant moments, and unexpected twists at every turn, Accolade grips your heart and mind, forcing you to examine the fine line between truth and lies.

Originally written in the 1950s, Emlyn Williams’ play remains remarkably relevant nearly 75 years later – this dark and chilling look about the price of success and trial-by-media examines the fine line between truth and lies, good and evil, and one’s past and future.

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

Tour Dates [Update]

PS: If you know of additional tour dates, please let me know here.

Honeysuckle Weeks was interviewed on Accolade:

“In my mind, it’s about two writers, both of whom are called William. One is a lucky Nobel-Prize-winning writer, and the other is a writer who’s been beset by tragedy. He’s a sort of, blaggard of sorts.

I think it’s Emlyn William’s writing that makes it modern. I think the audience will be quite alarmed because of the subject matter, but also I hope we’ll come to a better understanding of people in general and how nobody’s perfect, and if you really love somebody – you forgive them.

When I first read it, I thought oh I know what this is, and then I read on and it became a totally different organism. You know, one which is very hard to describe because of its moral nuance.

You have to really live and feel the character’s joy and anguish, in a way that’s more comprehensive, perhaps. It surprises you.”

Interview.