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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1978) (TV)
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Alan Bennett (writer)
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2 December 1978 (UK)
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3 nominations
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Early Alan Bennett, but the seeds of greatness are there!
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(Credited cast) | Alan Bennett | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Neville Smith | ... | Trevor Hopkins |
| Thora Hird | ... | Mrs. Hopkins |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Dickie Arnold | ... | Caretaker |
| Rex Arundel | ... | Man in WC |
| Pat Beckett | ... | Yoga woman |
| Christine Buckley | ... | Woman in infirmary |
| Lynne Carol | ... | Mrs. Tucker |
| Margaret Courtenay | ... | Mrs. Broadbent |
| Janine Duvitski | ... | Maureen |
| Nelson Fletcher | ... | Bus conductor |
| Olga Grahame | ... | Bus conductress |
| Barbara Hicks | ... | Miss. Gibbons |
| Alan Igbon | ... | Boswell |
| Hugh Lloyd | ... | Mr. Dodds |
| Robert Longden | ... | Mr. Willard |
| Carol MacReady | ... | Wendy |
| Gillian Martell | ... | Mrs. Garland |
| Frank Middlemass | ... | Doctor |
| Paul Rosebury | ... | Apprentice |
| Bernard Strother | ... | Apprentice |
| Derek Thompson | ... | Skinner |
 | Julie Walters | ... | Woman in waiting room |
| Gary Ward | ... | Boy on bus |
| Bernard Wrigley | ... | Mr. Trickett |
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Six Plays by Alan Bennett: Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (UK) (series title)
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USA:75 min
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References Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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This is definitely an early work, and it shows. It's a bit long, a bit pausy, occasionally a bit slow-moving. The "hero" (if that's an appropriate word for him) isn't very sympathetic. But there's plenty of clues about the future of Bennett's writing. This is his first work with Thora Hird and Julie Walters, both of whom would go on to glory in both series of Talking Heads, many years later.
There's an overbearing mother, repressed homosexuality, an embarrassingly loud conversation in a cafe, the idea that hippy-ish or left-wing ideas make people uncomfortable, themes of education, failed sexual relationships that are over before they have begun, and, of course, Northern England.
All of the above elements will be honed, improved and adapted in future workings, but this really is the birth of a modern genius. Occasionally a bit tedious, though.