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"Bar Mitzvah Boy" is the first episode of seventh season of the British
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anthology TV series ''
Play for Today
''Play for Today'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage ...
''. The television play was originally broadcast on 14 September 1976. It was written by
Jack Rosenthal
Jack Morris Rosenthal (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright. He wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. ...
, directed by
Michael Tuchner
Michael John Tuchner (24 June 1932 – 17 February 2017) was a British film and theatre director.
Born in Berlin, to German-Jewish parents, he was seven years old when his family moved to Britain with the rise of the Nazis. He eventually re ...
and produced by
Graeme MacDonald
Graeme Patrick David MacDonald (30 July 1930 – 30 September 1997), sometimes credited as Graeme McDonald or Graham McDonald, was a British television producer and executive.
Early life
MacDonald was educated at St Paul's School, London an ...
.
Starring Jeremy Steyn,
Kim Clifford,
Mark Herman
Mark Herman (born 1954) is an English film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing the 2008 film ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas''.
Life and career
Herman was born in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. He ...
,
Adrienne Posta
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,
Maria Charles
Maria Charles (born 22 September 1929) is an English film, television and stage actress, director and comedian. She is probably best known for her TV performance as the overbearing mother Bea Fisher in the ITV sitcom ''Agony''. Charles has also ...
,
Pamela Manson
Pamela Manson (30 September 1928 – 19 March 1988) was a British actress who in her 30–year career on film, television and stage is best known for playing comedy roles. She was also a political activist who was a member of Equity, and the In ...
,
Bernard Spear
Bernard Spear (11 September 1919 – 9 May 2003) was an English actor.
Early life
Spear was born on 11 September 1919 in Croydon, Surrey, to a Polish-Jewish father and a Russian-Jewish mother. He was educated at Central Federation School in ...
and
Cyril Shaps
Cyril Leonard Shaps (13 October 1923 – 1 January 2003) was an English actor of radio, television and film, with a career spanning over seven decades.
Early radio
Shaps was born in the East End of London to Polish-Jewish parents; his father ...
, the play tells the story of a young
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
boy, Eliott Green (Steyn), in a lower-middle class family living in suburban North East London of the 1970s, and the apprehensions the boy feels over his forthcoming
Bar Mitzvah. Meanwhile, the family prepares for the celebration, preoccupied with their own preparations for the b'nai mitzvah.
Reception
Programme notes for a
Boston Jewish Film Festival
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screening in 2004 hailed the play as "a BBC classic... this bittersweet comedy about a British boy’s upcoming Bar Mitzvah features a strong sense of time and place
ndstellar acting", while the
British Film Institute
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's website describes it as "a simple tale made memorable by genius writing and sympathetic performances."
In 1977, "Bar Mitzvah Boy" won the
British Academy Television Award
The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the BAFTA. They have been awarded annually since 1955.
Background
The first-ever Awards, given in 1955, consisted of six categories. Until ...
for 'Best Single Play', and in 2000 it was placed 56th in a BFI poll of the
100 Greatest British Television Programmes
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of the 20th century, voted on by industry professionals.
[ The play is available on DVD with Rosenthal's other BBC work.]
See also
* '' Sixty Six''
References
External links
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TV Cream review
1976 British television episodes
1976 television plays
Play for Today
Television episodes about Jews and Judaism
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