The Family Way Remake

[Windthrop]

The writer Ayub Khan-Din (East Is East) has written a remake of The Family Way under its original stage title All In Good Time. Hadn't heard anything about this until it was released today.

[CaptainWaggett]

The writer Ayub Khan-Din (East Is East) has written a remake of The Family Way under its original stage title All In Good Time. Hadn't heard anything about this until it was released today.

This version was done very successfully at the NT and on tour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafta,_Rafta

I enjoyed it a lot except for the rather odd solution to the housing problem which had the father suddenly remember he had £60,000 down the back of the sofa .

[Mr Sloane]

This version was done very successfully at the NT and on tour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafta,_Rafta

I enjoyed it a lot except for the rather odd solution to the housing problem which had the father suddenly remember he had £60,000 down the back of the sofa .

Does it keep the subtext

[CaptainWaggett]

Does it keep the subtext

The script is pretty much the same as the play but updated and with different cultural references (and no tin bath in the kitchen ). Though the Evening Standard film reviewer didn't recognise it

[Windthrop]

Does it keep the subtext

I can remember being in an am dram production of the play 20 years ago and being laughed at when I suggested the subtext

[Mr Sloane]

I can remember being in an am dram production of the play 20 years ago and being laughed at when I suggested the subtext

I remember watching this years ago on the telly with my parents (possibly first TV showing) and my dad's discomfort at the chat's between Marjorie Rhodes ( who was brilliant ) and John Mills re Ezra's friend showed he got the subtext ( and this was a man who had seen Hinge and Bracket numerous times on the telly before he twigged they were fellas!).

[CaptainWaggett]

I remember watching this years ago on the telly with my parents (possibly first TV showing) and my dad's discomfort at the chat's between Marjorie Rhodes ( who was brilliant ) and John Mills re Ezra's friend showed he got the subtext ( and this was a man who had seen Hinge and Bracket numerous times on the telly before he twigged they were fellas!).

I had a friend who'd seen them live and didn't realise until she read an obituary

[cassidy]

I don't think you can beat the great Liz Fraser saying "Do a job on his wife, you couldn't do a job on our cat, the milkman's been doing your job for years"

[Windthrop]

Bill Naughton's work never quite seems to die off despite being the fodder for am dram for years. The Alfie remake didn't really work but it does show that good writing lives on.