In Celebration
In their tiny house in a Yorkshire mining town, god fearing and hardworking Mr. and Mrs. Shaw (Bill Owen and Constance Chapman) welcome their sons home to celebrate the Shaw's 40th wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrival more and more of the Shaw's model blue-collar family facade begins to chip away. Middle son Colin's (James Bolam) engagement has placed him on the path to a loveless marriage. Barely shouldering the burdens of his shattered artistic aspirations and his own family, Steven (Brian Cox), the baby, is on the threshold of a nervous breakdown. But the toaster tossed into this already scalding theatrical bath is Alan Bates as eldest son Andrew. As father, mother and brothers futily try to hide the truth from themselves and each other, Bates' Andrew tears into the Shaw family's carefully maintained fictions with animal fury and all too human bitterness. A long unseen and key work in his acclaimed career, director Lindsay Anderson ("O Lucky Man!") here reunites the cast from his original Royal Court Theatre production of David Storey's semi-autobiographical play.
Year: 1974
Genre: Alice's Playhouse
Country: UK
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Starring: Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Bill Owen, Constance Chapman, James Bolam
Duration: 125 Minutes
Rating: M - Adult themes.
7.2/10
Location in store: Alice's Playhouse
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