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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 ...
Brimstone and Treacle is a 1976 BBC television play by Dennis Potter. Originally intended for broadcast as an episode of the series Play for Today, it remained untransmitted until 1987. The play was made into a film version (released in 1982) co-starring Sting. Both versions also star Denholm Elliott.
Following Evelyn ' s success at the Prix Italia, Adrian adapted the play for television. Although largely remaining faithful to the radio production, Adrian incorporated several new scenes including a scene set in a pub where The Man and an equally anonymous friend discuss the former's 40th birthday, and a final coda where The Man returns home to his wife after his affair with The Girl has run ...
British nostalgia website, TV Cream, describes the play as "one of the most powerful dramas the BBC, or anyone, have shown, and as such presents the strongest possible case for the "naturalism" that many Play for Today writers were determined to get away from. The ensemble playing is brilliantly done, with interruptions and improvised stutters ...
Programme notes for a Boston Jewish Film Festival screening in 2004 hailed the play as "a BBC classic... this bittersweet comedy about a British boy’s upcoming Bar Mitzvah features a strong sense of time and place [and] stellar acting", while the British Film Institute's website describes it as "a simple tale made memorable by genius writing and sympathetic performances."
The play was originally intended to be part of a trilogy exploring an individual's choices (or rather, lack of them) in the face of an omniscient narrator; "Double Dare" was to form the first part, followed by Brimstone and Treacle, also produced for the Play for Today slot, and Where Adam Stood — a free adaptation of Edmund Gosse's ...
The Rank and File (Play for Today) Robin Redbreast (Play for Today) Rumpole of the Bailey; S. Scum (television play) Spend, Spend, Spend; The Spongers; T.
The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 14 October 1971. "Traitor" was written by Dennis Potter , directed by Alan Bridges , produced by Graeme MacDonald , and starred John Le Mesurier as Adrian Harris, a character loosely based on Kim Philby .