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Once more, I turn to the Massive for help...
I'm trying to track down a play shown on TV some years ago now - probably some time in the '80s I think.
No idea what it was called, or who was in it - but it seemed to be set in some sort of dystopian 'alternative' present day, in a deserted council estate left unpopulated and decaying.
The one thing I remember about the play was one particular, striking scene, where the cast members congregated in one of the deserted houses. One of the cast (dressed, along with his colleagues, in Reservoir Dogs-esque black suits, white shirts and black ties) produces a ghetto blaster that he places on a nearby table. The cast stand around in a circle, heads bowed, as Otis's 'Try a Little Tenderness' plays on the ghetto blaster. The cast then are, individually and collectively, transported to ecstasy by the song.
Does anyone out there have any recollection of this strange little performance, or have I imagined the whole thing?
If anyone knows, The Massive knows.
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It's called...
...'Road', written by Jim Cartwright. Shown as part of a season called Screenplay.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093868/combined
let the pocket man be arrowed by one and all!
Now that's some instant massive help!
Ithangyoo.
Who doesn't love a challenge followed by an 'Up'?
a great program
searingly odd and passionate
weird - i've been trying to
weird - i've been trying to track this dowyn for years too because i remember seeing it when it was broadcast and being blown away by it especially that bit where they do 'try a little tenderness' - one of those 80s agit-prop masterpieces that actually inspired rather than patronised
another fogotten classic is 'fighters' by ron peck - a drama shot in doc style that featured ex boxer mark kaylor as a bouncer and was an east end gangland story that influenced nil by mouth and later cockney villain yarns
Dystopian in a County Durham kinda way
They don't make 'em like than anymore.
FYI - the "unpopulated and decaying" dystopia was the old mining village Easington. Which in time, became home to Billy Elliot too.
Absolutely fantastic
I am truly impressed - thank you one and all (but especially pocket for his speedy response).
Don't suppose it ever made it to dvd...?
No DVD, but...
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Road-by-Alan-Clarke-BBC-1987-VHSRip-XviD/520...
Talking of dystopian housing estates
was delighted to find this recently
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMxNTEyMTQw.html
first ep of 1990 featuring Edward Woodward