First look at major new BBC drama Dope Girls
After the losses of World War One, a newly empowered generation of women are loath to simply return to the kitchen and turn to Soho's expanding illicit underground club scene as their new playground. pic.twitter.com/lEnIVPK4Hp
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The BBC has revealed first-look pictures of the women of Dope Girls, a major new six-part drama coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer that brings the Soho streets of 1918 vividly to life. Produced by Bad Wolf in association with Sony Pictures Television, the drama is inspired by a forgotten time in history.
Dope Girls features Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown) as Kate Galloway, a single mother who establishes a nightclub amidst the hedonistic uproar of post-World War One London, embracing a life of criminal activities with the dedicated aim of providing for her daughter Evie, played by Eilidh Fisher (The Power).
Eliza Scanlen (Little Women) plays Violet Davies, one of the first wave of female officers, who is assigned to go undercover and investigate the illicit world of underground Soho nightclubs. This is where we find Billie Cassidy played by Umi Myers (Bob Marley: One Love), a dazzling bohemian dancer, whose life is irrevocably changed by Kate’s arrival.
Geraldine James (Anne with an E) plays Isabella Salucci, the leader of the criminal Salucci family that also includes Sebastian Croft (Heartstopper) as Silvio Salucci, Rory Fleck Bryne (This Is Going To Hurt) and Dustin Demri-Burns (Slow Horse).
A women-led Peaky Blinders?
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