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The women in Alan Sillitoe's fifties classic novel were very much secondary characters in the film version. Amanda Whittington's stage adaptation gives them substance and prominence. They are as trapped, perhaps more so, than Arthur Seaton, the story's rebellious hero... February 27, 2008
A young Ian McKellen made his name in Nottingham in 1964 playing Sillitoe's anti-hero, Arthur Seaton. The legacy of the Fifties city is its notorious weekend drinking culture, but the Raleigh factory that imprisoned Arthur is long gone, lending irony to his dream that it might be burned down in some great working-class rebellion... February 13, 2006
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