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"Play for Today" Nuts in May (1976)
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Mike Leigh (deviser)
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Original Air Date:
13 January 1976 (Season 6, Episode 12)
Plot:
A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them. full summary | add synopsis
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A classic more (24 total)
Cast
(Episode Complete credited cast) | Roger Sloman | ... | Keith |
| Alison Steadman | ... | Candice Marie |
| Anthony O'Donnell | ... | Ray |
| Sheila Kelley | ... | Honky |
| Stephen Bill | ... | Finger |
| Richenda Carey | ... | Miss Beale |
| Eric Allan | ... | Quarryman |
| Matthew Guinness | ... | Farmer |
| Sally Watts | ... | Farm Girl |
| Richard Ireson | ... | Policeman |
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84 min
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[Finger and Honky are making a lot noise in their tent. Keith gets up in the middle of the night to tell them to shut up]
Keith:
This is a tent! *I* am in a tent! The walls of a tent are thin. I can hear everything you're saying. Now BE QUIET!
Finger:
Get back to bed!
Keith:
And you get back to your tenements!
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I always wonder if Nuts In May was intended to be as hilarious as it turns out to be. Full of quotable lines, the trendy-liberal 70s Keith and Candice-Marie may be overwhelming stereotypes, but they work extremely well. It's a simple tale, subtle in places, but with a great deal of depth. There's a moral here - how ever much you try and escape from the society at large and try and "do your own thing", there's always some authority above you, or someone who comes along and spoils things. Keith may be obstinate and a know-it-all, yet he has a certain sensitivity to his character, he cracks under the pressure, and though he may be a liberal, he isn't exactly tolerant and seems power-crazy. Candice-Marie seems to have a heart of gold, but she's really looking for excitement in her humdrum life. Ray may seem lonely but he has his head screwed on the right way and just doesn't want to be hassled. As for Finger and Honky, they are obnoxious perhaps, uncouth maybe, but they provide comedy and just want to have fun. There's a depth of character in Nuts in May that is refreshing, but there's plenty of humour... watching Keith and Candice-Marie embarrass Ray into singing their appalling hippy zoo song is totally hilarious, and the subtle interplay between the couple is marvellous at times. Mike Leigh gives us characters that are human, with flaws and quirks - there's a great deal of honesty here. It stands up for repeated viewings both for its comedy and its subtlety, and its classic 'quotability'. A masterpiece, frankly.