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Big Life, The (2005 Video)

aka: The Ska Musical

Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...

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Tempest, The (2012 Film)

Director

Rob Curry; Anthony Fletcher

Producer

Rob Curry; Anthony Fletcher

Low-budget independent film. The directors enlist a multiracial group of 17 young people from South London to do a workshop on The Tempest. During rehearsals the teenagers comment on the negative attention...

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Big Life, The (2006 Radio, Video)

aka: The Ska Musical

Series

Play of the Week (BBC World Service)

Director

Clint Dyer

Producer

Rosalynd Ward

Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...

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Hamlet of Stepney Green, The (1965 Radio)

Producer

Charles Lefeaux

Bernard Kops radio play distills elements freely adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy into ‘A Sad Comedy with some Songs’ (subtitle). Kop’s one-act play is set in the 1950s lower-middle-class Jewish...

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