Post by John Green on May 20, 2024 15:38:07 GMT
"Daisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth’s physical and emotional impact."
"John Bowen's Robin Redbreast is one of those episodes of Play for Today that is rooted in its era. It is a quintessentially 1970s mix of stagey acting and on-the-nose social issues (cohabitation, contraception, abortion), spiced with a creepy infusion of English folklore. It is idiosyncratic and unnerving, and you can see why they call it a precursor to The Wicker Man. The plot follows Norah Palmer, a TV writer who retreats to the countryside where the locals’ interest in paganism seems to go beyond the harvest festival. All evidence suggests they are after her firstborn." www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/20/robinredbreast-review-maxine-peake
"John Bowen's Robin Redbreast is one of those episodes of Play for Today that is rooted in its era. It is a quintessentially 1970s mix of stagey acting and on-the-nose social issues (cohabitation, contraception, abortion), spiced with a creepy infusion of English folklore. It is idiosyncratic and unnerving, and you can see why they call it a precursor to The Wicker Man. The plot follows Norah Palmer, a TV writer who retreats to the countryside where the locals’ interest in paganism seems to go beyond the harvest festival. All evidence suggests they are after her firstborn." www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/20/robinredbreast-review-maxine-peake