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"Play for Today" Home (1972)
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David Storey (play)
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6 January 1972
(Season 2, Episode 10)
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Worth Seeing for Gielgud and Richardson
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(Episode Credited cast) | Warren Clarke | ... | Alfred |
 | John Gielgud | ... | Harry |
| Dandy Nichols | ... | Marjorie |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | Jack |
| Mona Washbourne | ... | Kathleen |
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86 min
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This is an adaptation of a highly celebrated 1970 Royal Court production.
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Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud are excellent and make the play well worth seeing.
All the action takes place in the dusty courtyard of a "home," whose patients are aged and mentally disturbed. The viewer is left to decide just how crazy they really are.
At times it's quite moving to watch Gielgud and Richardson struggle to remain polite, engaged, and coherent as they converse. Richardson does inept card tricks and Gielgud pretends not to notice the repeated screw-ups. When, finally, John does quietly point out a mistake, it's as if he has punched Ralph in the gut.
In unfortunate contrast to such subtle force are the two female roles -- the actresses only occasionally rise above their annoyingly screechy, caricatured dialogue.
7/10