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This week's highlights: 27 and Mayfest
15 May 2012 4:55 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
27
Return of Abi Morgan's play, set in a convent, which examines faith, science, ageing and loneliness. Maureen Beattie stars and Vicky Featherstone directs. Citizens, Glasgow, Thursday to 26 May, then touring.
Mayfest
Fabulous festival in Bristol of work from both established and emerging artists. It's a real mixture, very little of it in traditional form. Be adventurous. Various venues, Thursday to 27 May.
100% Norfolk
Famed Berlin company Rimini Protokoll, who create theatre with real people, are exploring the experiences, hopes and dreams of 100 Norfolk dwellers. Theatre Royal, Norwich, Friday and Saturday.
Pop
The Horrors
Still riding the wave of last year's fantastic Skying album, the Horrors tour with support from the equally great and similarly psychedelic Toy. »
Steptoe and Son comes to the stage
7 March 2012 6:52 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
BBC's hit sitcom is to gain a new lease of life in Kneehigh theatre adaptation
Long-running BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son is to be adapted for the stage by Kneehigh theatre.
Emma Rice will direct the production, which will premiere at the Cornish company's Asylum theatre tent in July, before embarking on a national tour starting at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, with whom Kneehigh are co-producing, in September.
The sitcom, which ran from 1962 to 1974, follows the misfortunes of two rag-and-bone men, father and son Albert and Harold, in their rundown home in Oil Drum Lane. It was voted 15th in the BBC's 2004 poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom and later spawned two films as well as Us, Swedish and Dutch versions.
Rice has adapted original scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the show. She told the Stage: "I've tried to enable and reveal the heartbreaking and perfectly observed »
- Matt Trueman
The story of script revival The Day Off with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
29 January 2012 2:38 PM, PST | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
The Day Off revisited
Its not often that an unmade film can get revived and given a world premiere, least of all when its script was abandoned 50 years ago. But that is in a sense what has happened this year with The Day Off - a unfilmed script written by Steptoe And Son creator team Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and premiered at this years London Comedy Film Festival via a live cast reading to an audience. Written with the intention of starring comedy legend Tony Hancock in 1961 (Galton and Simpson having worked with him before on the film The Rebel in 1961, and earlier in radio »
- Owen Van Spall
Loco: London’s 1st Comedy Film Festival
28 January 2012 4:50 AM, PST | The Moving Arts Journal | See recent The Moving Arts Journal news »
Art films don’t have to be serious, but a lot of them are. Madness, suffering, death—at times these become depressingly familiar themes at film festivals. For this reason, the rare comedy film is welcome: comedy highlights of last year’s festivals were Matchmaking Mayor at Berlin and Sons of Norway in Reykjavik. Although you’re primed to enjoy them, comedies are a reliable choice, as they typically have to be original, as well as funny, to be included in the festival.
What if you could have a festival that showed nothing but comedies? And what if it cheered you up during the most depressing month of the year? That’s just what the charity ‘Loco’ has done this year. London’s very first comedy film festival is taking place this weekend at the BFI. It started last night, and you’ll have to be quick if you want »
- Alison Frank
Hancock's half-finished: how Galton and Simpson revived their lost movie
22 January 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
They made TV history together and were planning their next film – until Tony Hancock rejected their script. Ray Galton and Alan Simpson reveal why The Day Off is now back on
The best review we ever had wasn't from a critic. It was from an artist, Lucian Freud. He said that The Rebel was the greatest film ever made about modern art. The 1961 movie was the first, and sadly the only, film we made with Tony Hancock. It's the story of an office clerk, played by Hancock, who believes himself to be a great but undiscovered artist. When he's fired from his job he moves to Paris, in the hope that the art world will recognise him for the genius he is. Of course, being Hancock, he's a terrible painter, but his ability to act like a genius persuades a group of fashionable young artists that he might be the real deal. »
Hancock's half-finished: how Galton and Simpson revived their lost movie
22 January 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
They made TV history together and were planning their next film – until Tony Hancock rejected their script. Ray Galton and Alan Simpson reveal why The Day Off is now back on
The best review we ever had wasn't from a critic. It was from an artist, Lucian Freud. He said that The Rebel was the greatest film ever made about modern art. The 1961 movie was the first, and sadly the only, film we made with Tony Hancock. It's the story of an office clerk, played by Hancock, who believes himself to be a great but undiscovered artist. When he's fired from his job he moves to Paris, in the hope that the art world will recognise him for the genius he is. Of course, being Hancock, he's a terrible painter, but his ability to act like a genius persuades a group of fashionable young artists that he might be the real deal. »
Borgen begins with 629,000 viewers | TV ratings
9 January 2012 4:16 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
BBC4's latest Danish drama eclipses the debut of The Killing with a 2.6% share of the audience
BBC4's latest Danish drama Borgen launched with more than 600,000 viewers, eclipsing the debut of the channel's breakout Scandinavian hit, The Killing.
Political thriller Borgen began with 629,000 viewers between 9pm and 10pm on Saturday, a 2.6% share of the audience, dipping to 460,000 (2.3%) for its second episode which followed immediately after.
The first series of The Killing began with 393,000 viewers in January last year. The second season, buoyed by the success of the first, began with more than 800,000 viewers last November.
Borgen's audience was a quarter up on the BBC4 slot average over the last three months.
The drama, made by the same production company behind The Killing, drew plaudits from reviewers in the Guardian ("fantastically compelling"), the Daily Telegraph and the Independent.
If it's not quite the new Killing, then it comes close.
Ross »
- John Plunkett
Forgotten Hancock script to finally be made into movie - Realbollywood.com News
2 January 2012 2:41 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Jan 2: The script that led comic legend Tony Hancock to leave his hit writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, is going to be made into a film, more than 50 years after it was first written.
Galton and Simpson, who had penned all of Hancock's television and radio series from the early Fifties onwards, came up with movie script The Day Off in 1961.
But Hancock, who was keen to crack Hollywood at the time, insisted it 'wasn't international' enough.
He then split from Galton and Simpson - a move which is regarded as the biggest mistake of his career. While they went on to write the hit sitcom Steptoe And Son, Hancock succumbed. »
- Diksha Singh
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