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Just started on BBC4 first screened 30 years ago…. classic :lol: :wink:
but football is on bbc2…
Get sky matty lol…. cant be doing with watching footy if it aint live :wink:
Are we on there now? You watch how we pass the ball, we are the best.
“TONE” ……
Im a massive fan of mike leigh …I have watched and read ( and re-read) his screen-plays !
To this Day Alison Steadman is a fave actress of mine for her Part in the eponymous ” abigail” ! and BETTER still as Candice-Marie in ” nuts in may”
the Guy us a sheer genius !
Sorry to disagree, girls, but I thought Abigail’s Party was a poorly scripted and appallingly acted piece of kitsch first time around, and it hasn’t improved with age. Mike Leigh was and is an overrated writer, and worse – Alison Steadman has been playing variations of ‘Beverly’ in every character portrayal ever since.
Abigail’s Party makes me cringe – not in the sense of recognising the teeth-clenchingly ghastly faux-pas and suburban absurdities of the ritual social soiree – but rather, in the pantomime-dame caricatured performance of the one-trick pony Steadman. Aargh, now my day’s off to a bad start.
:evil:Beverly !! that was it ! apologies for earlier faux pas’s.
I think one of the main reasons i DID/Do like it WAS the fact it was overly “caricatured”we have all met “beverlys” in real life and saw right through them :) I have a longing to watch it again now.will see if i can get it on catch -up later.
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