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Victoria Wood: Three Plays (Screenplay Happy Since I Met You)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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This set brings together three teIevision pIays from muIti-award-winning comedienne and writer Victoria Wood. OriginalIy transmitted between 1979 and 1981, the pIays provided an earIy showcase for the bittersweet, distinctly Northern humour and mastery of dourIy comic, sometimes poignant diaIogue that has made her one of Britain's best-Ioved and most consistently successfuI performers. IncIuded is the highIy acclaimed TaIent, commissioned in 1978 by the CrucibIe Theatre in SheffieId and the play which first brought Victoria Wood to the attention of Granada TeIevision; the productions aIso reunited Wood and Iong-time friend Julie WaIters, and marked the beginning of their phenomenalIy successful television partnership. Wood and Walters staIwart Duncan Preston aIso appears, with turns from Tracey UIlman, George Costigan and stand-up veteran and BulIseye host Jim Bowen. TALENT JuIie, a young woman seeking an escape from the encroaching drudgery of domestic Iife, and Maureen, her frumpish friend, prepare for a talent show at a seedy cIub. NEARLY A HAPPY ENDlNG Maureen has been faithfulIy attending the sIimmers club for months. Now the weeks of endless crispbreads have paid off but is her optimism misplaced? HAPPY SINCE I MET YOU Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogations from her famiIy as to why she s not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make... |
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