GREGORY teenage disaster area. In the first eleven, he displays the sort of ball control you'd about expect from a teenage giraffe.
And persuading the elusive ball into the back of the net is not his only problem. 'Scoring' off the pitch is harder than looks, too. But at the end of the day, mough Gregory has failed to keep his place the team or to get the girl, he remains undaunted by the trials and tribulations of adolescence.
Gregory's Girl, writen ane directed by Bill Forsyth, is gentle, humorous look at growing up. It says a great Niar i things about youth and adulthood that are true, although it creates society anew in order to do it.
In Gregory's world, the problems and cares created by school and aosume proportion. Adults are all-powerful here. It's the youth who are in control. Adults occasionally pop up generally with as little reason the lost penguin wandering the school corridors, and usual/v proving to be eccentric.
It's not simply the youth are given greater authority; even the roles which men and women normally play gol reversea.
The superstar of the football first eleven is a woman, while the school's supercook is a bloke. The brand new science laboratory has wurch Student presiding the OVen technology, and it's two male students who agonise over their lack of women-appeal.
Compared to the stark, brutality of Ken Loden Garnett's depiction school Kes, Gregory's Girl is practically dreamlike. Forsyth's youth are often worldiy wise but their wisdom is matter of fact, not bitter.
Gregory's Girl is about the way our own youth should have been but wasn't. Like Kes, it's a small budget film and is only showing at a tew cinemas in London. But from the approval it has received PCLeVeO the hands of the press, looks like it may find a greater showing in the The film tainly deserves it. CarBy Geoffrey Sheridan Lord Chamberlain and went to work with a blue pencil.
Dialogue about sex, or still worse any chatuch thereof, stood little chance of gaining the Lord Chamberlain's avoroval Pol suc ear d bke the e Royal and subjects like Family were taboo What the Lord Chamberlain said had. to go, went case. whole plays. His censorship provided the backdrop for the sterile drawing-room charades which were passed off as British drama until a couple of decades ago Whitehouse, apostle of Victorian-age morality, WIlC the clock back. Her immediate Lal zet Ine Romans in Britain, which was performed at the Na.
It has also given women a chance to work collectively producing a and practising skills that we have had little or no perience of before and to prove to the grown-ups' that we are capable of doing these things on our own. feel- • Shocking desperate need of financial aid. Please take out a founding trust to enable us to continue production onty " £10 for NOT so long ago a gentleman known as the sat through every play before it was publicly performed in Britain tional Theatre in London. The theme of the play was politica it combarca luc Konar lavaso of Britain with the role of the tOlos Whitehouse has gone for a scene which snow ine nomosexual raDe of a Roman soldier. Druid procol by the words of the theatre's director, Peter Hall, it is 'a precise and inevitable melapnol aDOU the brutality of colonialism'.
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Her private DOSCCU tion under the Sexual Of fences Act charges the blav s director 'procuring an act t of gross mucccnly Having won the backing of Iag-sllales une case now goes to the Old Bailey.
Homosexual rape might well be more disturbing to the judiciary than heterosexual rape, which waer ll IS .committed nothing more than judge's mild disapproval.
Mary Whitehouse's waron counterpart in history Germany under the Nazi was subjected to the same 'purity', with the CALCI mination of gays and the elevation of • WUlCil le the heroic breeders of the Herrenvolk.
Thatcher's Britain would hardly be complete without a legal march back to the "sanctity' family. Socialists should join with Equity, the ac tors' in wholly op posing this prosecution fabulous issues of Shocking Pink!
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