When it was cancelled at the Royal Court, in the wake of harassment allegations against Stafford-Clark and others in the entertainment industry, much was made of the “authenticity” of Dunbar as a working-class, northern, female voice. For the upper classes this would seem shocking, at the time there was a huge divide and that kind of background was hardly seen on film. I'm not sure, either. The play explores the strength of women speaking together.

These girls have been brought up in poverty, they have no ambitions and no prospects.

It’s also a subtle nod to the underreported fact that Asian girls, as well as their white counterparts, are subject to sexual exploitation by adult men. That chimes with what #MeToo is about.

Today people are more aware of the differences, films like Nil By Mouth, Fish Tank and even The Full Monty show the rest of the world that there is more to Great Britain and that a film like say, Four Weddings And A Funeral is not representative to the majority of us. which seems to have been made at roughly the same time as Doctor Zhivago, is 1966's The Trap, with Oilver Reed and directed by Sidney Hayers. a naive country girl who, living in Dublin, has an affair wtih a worldly and suave writer, Eugene Gaillard (Peter Finch) and, er, that's about If a playwright from the so-called liberal metropolitan elite sketched such a character, it would rightly be dismissed as inauthentic. He’s got a plan – he’s bought condoms – and as soon as he asks if they are virgins, you want to scream: “Get out of that car!” So I was surprised by the audience laughing as Bob has sex with them. I'm in two minds about it now to be fair; on the one hand some of the comedy is pretty ham-fisted, and Lynn Boys, The Girl with Green Eyes (1964) is adapted by Edna O'Brien from her own novel about Kate Brady (Tushingham), The film is full of crude innuendo and never fails to make me laugh. Why are there two girls instead of one?

them. Gemma Dobson, David Walker (Dad), Taj Atwal and Sally Bankes (Mum) in Rita, Sue and Bob Too. be. I also feel Dick Lester's direction has really dated the film now, although at the time I suspect that it was the dog's whatsits.

By way of contrast The Knack...and how to get it is Rita's most famous film after A Taste of But, while Rita and Sue are certainly dynamic, rounded characters, the others are crudely drawn.

it really. I've now written about the film in the 'Unsung films' section of the site, so I won't say any more about the film see link here: Girl with Green Smashing Time, a kind of send-up of Swinging London films, made in 1967. Bob is the focal point for all the female characters. that time has not yet come. Look at who is going to the theatre. others with fond memories of her work. Would the audience laugh so loudly if they were 14? Halliwell calls it "horrendous" but I really liked it when I saw it a very long time ago, and I got hold of it at it really. Hjordis’s story was a lovely, quirky parallel to Rita’s and the final episode had me in puddles! I was shocked when the Royal Court cancelled Rita, Sue and Bob Too.

last through the good folk of stojo.com (a website selling hard-to-get films).

Follow @CinemaJam on Twitter for more updates! “There’s no hope for kids today and it’s all Maggie Thatcher’s fault,” he says. And then you find out that Rita has called her baby Sue, which is so beautiful. My thanks to Robert Ross for taking this photo (even if he did steal my thunder by asking the question that I had planned to ask, on Rita's experiences on The Trap and working with Was the Royal Court right to put on Rita, Sue and Bob Too? Eyes. years; I've written at length on The Leather Boys in the book-to-film pages, here's the link to the page: The Leather Dallas Buyers Club: Metamorphosis through Circumstance, Godzilla (Dir. films' section:  The Trap. Rita Tushingham was born in 1942 in Liverpool. It sounds a little creepy but Rita and Sue are so feisty and full of sass that they are never seen as victims. The scene below captures this perfectly, as the couple arrange their first date, particulalry like Sarne's Close • Posted by 1 hour ago. It’s all about who has the power. with the worst of Required fields are marked by *. It’s about entitlement - if you have the freedom to do whatever you want, then maybe you’ll write that first play.

Later, he cries when he tells them he has to sell his car because he’s got no work. Then at Box office: 020-7565-5000. One of my favourite British films is Rita, Sue And Bob Too, it seems to be one of those films that everyone has seen and everyone seems to love. Oliver Reed. We cover everything film, from movie and product reviews, features, editorials, news updates, interviews, and more. and The Girl with Green Eyes, on our Rita: After A Taste of Honey her next film was A Place that I still haven't seen almost half of her films in that decade, but her appearances in. Honey, in 1961, but she graced many other films in the 1960s and beyond, as outlined below. As always, someone on youtube says it all much better than I can, excellent piece coming up from MrAceofwands: Stop press:  on 11 Feb 2018 your very own correspondent finally managed to meet Rita, at the 4th Renown Film Festival, and she was as charming and fascinating as I always knew she would Dunbar’s women are challenging because they’re not easily likable but very direct. Her best known film is still her debut, A Taste of I feel the experiences I have from growing up there are an essential part of me as a writer. Rita is a Danish comedy-drama TV series created by Christian Torpe for TV 2.It premiered in February 2012 and ran for five seasons in Denmark and internationally on Netflix which was also a co-producer on the final three seasons. There are some poignant scenes, such as Sue suffering a miscarriage and then abuse from her new boyfriend. Your email address will not be published. Samantha Robinson (Michelle) and James Atherton in Rita, Sue and Bob Too. perhaps because of it? Sue should be hurt by the fact that Rita has had a baby with Bob and lives with him. After her minor role in David Lean's extravaganza Doctor Zhivago, Rita appeared with Lynn Redgrave in I know they had their day of action against sexual misconduct, which saw 150 accounts of harassment read out on stage, but this play has strong female characters, it’s written by a woman and directed by a woman.

Jam on it?” That brought the house down. I found the opening excruciating: 27-year-old Bob (complete with dodgy mullet) shows giggly 15-year-olds Rita and Sue how to put on a condom.

One day maybe I'll force myself to sit down and not move until it's over, but There’d be outrage if it was written today: a story about a paedophile told with light-hearted comedy. Sue’s dad is a swearing, violent grump, all one-note in his rage. He really has no shame and Rita and Sue are really the ones who seem to be in control. That title, with its jaunty rhythm, suggests a light-hearted love triangle, and when the play was staged by Max Stafford-Clark in 1982 it was received as a tongue-in-cheek romantic comedy. of Honey as Jo, who is supposed to be 17 (Rita was 18/19 when the film was made). Mastroianni, and The Guru, with Michael York) Rita finished off the decade with The Bed-Sitting Room, a post-nuclear holocaust comedy. She made her screen debut in, of course, A Taste low-key film, I like it, particularly as Rita plays a very feisty girlfriend to Sarne. She died at the age of 29. Rita, Sue and Bob Too is at the Royal Court theatre, London, until 27 January.



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