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Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below ...
"Nuts in May" is the 12th episode of the sixth season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 13 January 1976. [1] "Nuts in May" was written and directed by Mike Leigh, produced by David Rose, and starred Roger Sloman and Alison Steadman.
Alison Steadman (born 26 August 1946) is an English actress. She received the 1977 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Abigail's Party, the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for the Mike Leigh film Life Is Sweet and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Mari in the original production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.
Cast: Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Adrian Lukis, Alison Steadman, Benjamin Whitrow, David Bamber. Related content: Yes, that Bridgerton wet shirt scene is an intentional homage to Colin Firth's Mr ...
Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television, devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s.
Alison Steadman plays Betty, Robbie's grandmother, to whom he was very close. Steadman has had an extensive career in theatre. Her film credits include Topsy-Turvy, The Adventures of Baron ...
Gavin & Stacey's Alison Steadman has spoken about the beloved comedy show’s final moments, and got a little bit emotional talking about it. Appearing on today's (December 14) Saturday Kitchen ...
The play is highly regarded by the critic Michael Coveney, who wrote in a 1996 study of Leigh's work : "The kissing part of The Kiss of Death is an extraordinary scene. . Linda and Trevor are on a sofa, she chewing away, he nervously amused but not exactly apprehensive...The playing of Kay Adshead and David Threlfall indicates every stage of this sexual jousting match with faultless accuracy ...