A FORMER Coronation Street actor is back centre stage in a one-woman play staged at The Dukes.

Krissi Bohn, who played Jenna Kamara in the television soap, returns to The Bogus Woman seven years after it was seen by more than 3,500 people during a sell-out run in Keswick.

Playing the Lancaster theatre on Wednesday, September 9 (7.30pm), The Bogus Woman tells the experiences of a young African woman who arrives in England, fleeing for her life and seeking asylum.

Despite having committed no crime she is indefinitely confined, interrogated, humiliated and abused. She witnesses the cruelty of the authorities and their casual disregard for an individual’s human rights.

Krissi portrays more than 50 characters and in the space of 80 minutes transforming herself into soldiers, immigration officials, detention centre staff, fellow asylum seekers, do-gooders, lawyers and many others.

Krissi has been praised far and wide for her performance in The Bogus Woman, which is a world away from her role as the daughter of cab firm owner, Lloyd Mullaney, in Corrie.

During her two years on the famous cobbles, Krissi’s character discovered her dad, lost her job as a physiotherapist and had a relationship with Sophie Webster.

She said that playing in The Bogus Woman was the most challenging and most rewarding piece of work she has done. Kriss added: “Now is the right time for the team to stage the play again and for it to be seen again.”

As the asylum debate continues to rage, the powerful, heart wrenching play, which kicks off The Dukes autumn drama season, is as relevant today as when it was first produced.

Written by Kay Adshead and directed by Zoë Waterman, The Bogus Woman contains strong language and apparently has scenes that may be unsuitable for anyone younger than 16.

There will be a post show talk after the performance which is free to ticket holders.

The new Dukes season continues on Friday, September 18 (8pm) with Big Girl’s Blouse, written and performed by Kate O’Donnell.

Looking at being transgender in the 1970s, the play is a funny, heart-warming and gently political take on growing up different from the people around you with Kate making a song and dance about her life using humour, music and costume to tell her story. Kate recently received the Brighton Fringe LGBTQ Award for the show.

Also, playing the popular venue next month on Wednesday, September 23 (7.30pm), is an outstanding piece of physical theatre, put together by Natalie Morrell and Simon McElligot, best known as The Knotted Project.

A fast paced, witty and cleverly devised show, Lonely Hearts tells of the trials and tribulations of two people as they search for love.

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