Bar Mitzvah Boy

Bar Mitzvah Boy is a British television play, written by Jack Rosenthal and originally transmitted in the Play for Today anthology series on BBC1. Broadcast on September 14 1976, the 75-minute production was directed by Michael Tuchner and produced by Graeme MacDonald.

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British - Television - Play - Jack Rosenthal - Play for Today - BBC1 - September 14 - 1976 - Michael Tuchner - Graeme MacDonald

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Starring Jeremy Steyn, Kim Clifford, Mark Herman, Adrienne Posta, Maria Charles and Bernard Spear, the play tells the story of a young Jewish boy in a working class family living in Britain of the 1970s, and the apprehensions the boy feels over his forthcoming Bar Mitzvah.

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Jeremy Steyn - Kim Clifford - Mark Herman - Adrienne Posta - Maria Charles - Bernard Spear - Jewish - Working class - 1970s - Bar Mitzvah

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Programme notes from a Boston Jewish Film Festival screening in 2004 hail 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 stellar acting,"http://www.bjff.org/films/?id=5878 while the British Film Institute's website describes it as "a simple tale made memorable by genius writing and sympathetic performances." http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tv/100/list/prog.php?id=56.

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2004 - British Film Institute

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In 1977 Bar Mitzvah Boy won the BAFTA Television Award for 'Best Single Play', and in 2000 it was placed 56th in a BFI poll of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, voted on by industry professionals.

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1977 - BAFTA Television Award - 2000 - 100 Greatest British Television Programmes - 20th century

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