Prolific playwright James Graham was born in 1982, the year Alan Bleasdale's unforgettable series was televised. From Nottingham rather than Liverpool, Graham recognised in his own surroundings the predicaments of the main characters, the bonds between them and the importance to them of place and of shared stories. An admirer of Bleasdale's work, he had already acknowledged the older writer's influence on Sherwood, his television crime drama pulsating with continuing divisions caused by the miners' strike.
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George Bernard Shaw s 1914 play Pygmalion was the inspiration for the beloved musical My Fair Lady. But this revival at the Old Vic may leave fans of the film choking on their cucumber sandwiches.