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All posts tagged "Socialism rampant"
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2.5KPlay For TodayTishoo
By Brian Thompson. Paul Daneman and Anne ‘Onedin Line’ Stallybrass star as a biology professor and his lab technician in a southern...
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Commitments
By Dusty Hughes. Fringe theatre transfer to the screen set in the 1973-4 winter of the three day week, following a clan...
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United Kingdom
By Jim Allen. More social(ist) comment from Allen, this time centering on a breakaway local council in the North-East headed by a...
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Country: A Tory Story
July 1945, shortly after the election, and aristocratic Kentish brewing dynasty the Carlions are gathering for a christening...
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Union, The
By Tony Perrin. Story of the 1961 ballot rigging by the Electrician’s union to get a communist candidate elected General President. Perrin...
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Adventures of Frank, The
Highly experimental two-parter from The Cheviot… writer-director and head of the 7:84 theatre company John McGrath, partially adapted from his stage play...
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Light
By Tony Perrin. Communism, picket lines and suspicion threaten the peace of a quiet Cheshire village.
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Choice of Evils, A
Unusual move into historical drama from Jim Allen, but still true to his Trotskyite roots and belief in basing drama on solid...
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Price of Coal, The : Back to Reality
The second play in Hines’ double bill, which was suggested by Hines’ producer Tony Garnett, overshadows the first, in many senses. Opening...
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Price of Coal, The: Meet the People
First of two linked plays by Barry Hines about life in a colliery community, directed by Ken Loach and featuring a quartet...
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Brassneck
Brechtian distanciation which is all very well in the theatre but doesn't really work on the telly
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Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The
Scottish country dancing, militant style.
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2.3KTV: S is for...Struggle
SHORTLIVED SITCOM with TIM "JEWEL IN THE CROWN" PIGOTT-SMITH as a Red Ken figure running the London borough of Southam and facing...
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