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Play for Today: Sunset Across the Bay (BBC, 1975)
"It's one of them buses with a lavatory. Are you going to go?"
"I don't want to go."
"I do."
"Well go then."
"I don't want everybody to know I'm going."
"She's been in twice already. She were in there before we got to Stanningley. Anyway, what does it matter what folk think? We're retired now."
#play for today#sunset across the bay#1975#single play#alan bennett#stephen frears#gabrielle daye#harry markham#bob peck#paul shane#betty alberge#albert modley#bernard wrigley#madge hindle#patricia mason#norah pollitt#elizabeth dawn#peter wallis#clifford kershaw#christine buckley#gwen harris#a typically muted Bennett piece‚ reuniting him with director Frears who had helmed his first tv play (and would go on to produce some of#his best work later in the decade with the Six Plays strand). an elderly couple retire and move from Leeds to the Morecambe seaside; theres#not much more to this play‚ but it still packs an emotional wallop as our couple discover that their twilight years aren't quite as rosy as#they'd imagined them to be. it's a mature‚ thoughtful piece‚ often underplaying the moment rather than over egging it#Bennett certainly wrote funnier pieces‚ and better ones too‚ but for sheer bittersweet reality and quiet sad humanity this is hard to fault#as ever the cast includes multiple familiar faces that had collaborated with the writer before and would again; most had also worked on#Coronation Street at one time or another. perhaps the well of Northern character actors only ran so deep at this point#full of Bennett's skillful observation of the day to day idiosyncrasies of common working (or retired as it were) folk. this was repeated#on bbc4 recently and should still be up on iplayer for anyone with access; it's well worth it‚ tho not the playwright's warmest work
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Albert Modley
In ‘the lost property office’ he is the same mischievous school boy , he approaches the lost property kiosk at the train station, whilst he is waiting to be seen he touches parcels on the counter and the porter who is dealing with some one else, protests and tells Albert not to touch them! he keeps being mischievous and butting in! he tells the porter his mum has lost her umbrella so the porter sympathetically rings the guard, “what time did she loose it”? on the 3.30 replies Albert, so the guard checks the incoming trains, rings the other stations and after a while ,during which Albert is being a naughty boy touching things and generally being a nuisance, the porter informs him that the last train has come into the station for the day and it wasn’t on any of them! Albert replies” no! it wasn’t on a train it was on’t bus”! http://www.albertmodley.co.uk/more.htm
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Six Plays by Alan Bennett: All Day on the Sands (1.6, LWT, 1979)
"Look at the level of that sauce. Only started yesterday, it's gone down dramatically. I'm under no compulsion to provide sauce. Lathering it on. It's not as if my cooking needed sauce!"
"Make it available on request. Sauce available on request, that'll bring them to a sense of responsibility."
"Wouldn't care, but they go at the salt and pepper like lunatics. You'd think they'd never seen a cruet in their lives."
#six plays by alan bennett#all day on the sands#alan bennett#giles foster#1979#single play#marjorie yates#alun armstrong#gary carp#susan hopkins#jane freeman#ken jones#helene palmer#lynne carol#clifford kershaw#harry markham#albert modley#rosalind wilson#jonathan coy#stephen greenwood#bert gaunt#elizabeth dawn#having pushed the envelope a little at times‚ this series ends on a safer note with a classic Bennett piece about holidaymakers and wryly#observed class and relationship inspired dialogue. it's also for my money perhaps the weakest of the six plays; it has some brilliantly#sharp lines and scenes in true Bennett fashion but the overall play is just a little... aimless. a meandering look at a family on holiday#as Alun Armstrong's father figure struggles with being newly unemployed and Marjorie Yates as his wife variously supports‚ cajoles‚ and#picks at him. at the centre are their two children‚ but particularly their son‚ whose misadventures we follow as he attempts to retrieve a#lost sandal. it's fine enough but it doesn't really go anywhere‚ and it hasn't the bite nor the impact that the others in this strand had#i think partly as well that lies with Giles Foster's direction‚ which hasn't the spark or creativity of Lindsay Anderson‚ nor the fluidity#or careful precision of Stephen Frears (who helmed 4 of the 6 plays and acted as producer). still‚ despite my griping‚ not a bad piece
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