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Performance: Season 1, Episode 1Absolute Hell (5 Oct. 1991)Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after WW2. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Director:Anthony PageWriter:Rodney Ackland (by) |
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Christine Foskett
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Elizabeth Collier
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Julia Shillitoe
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Butch
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Bill
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Douglas Eden
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Michael Crowley
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Moyra Fraser | ... |
Lettice Willis
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Sheelagh Fraser | ... |
Madge
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Mrs. Pratt
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R. B. Monody
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Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after WW2. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens.
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While Dame Judi Dench is magnificent as always, this play is dreadfully depressing about the lives of London life after WWII. But my biggest problem with it is the more than average homosexuality in the drama. While Dame Judi plays the tragic lonely heroine who would plead for the companionship of a homosexual. The play is rather a grim and depressing too watch. Surprisingly, I did watch most of it. But I have to say that Doris is the only one sane reasonable character. Granted, she is a sexually repressed character who uses sports as an escape. She is the only one who makes the proper observation about the barflys or members as escaping into alcoholism and sex.