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I luv you Jimmy Spud is a play set in Newcastle upon Tyne by British playwright Lee Hall[1] starring Gus Brown as Jimmy Spud and Michael Walpert as Stephen (Scout). Originally commissioned by BBC Radio 4, it was first broadcast in 1995.
| I Luv You Jimmy Spud | |
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| Written by | Lee Hall |
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| Date premiered | 1995 |
| Original language | English |
The play initiated the God's Country tetralogy; the other plays in the sequence are, in order:
- The Love Letters of Ragie Patel (1997)
- The Sorrows of Sandra Saint (1997)
- Spoonface Steinberg (1997)
I luv you Jimmy Spud has been made into a 2001 film Gabriel and Me starring Iain Glen and Billy Connolly as the angel Gabriel.
In the forward to the book Byker Revisited, Hall said that I Luv You Jimmy Spud was heavily influenced by photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's book, Byker.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Lee Hall - IMDb". imdb.com. September 22, 2011.
- ^ Konttinen, Sirkka-Liisa (2009). Byker Revisited. Northumbria Press. p. vi. ISBN 978-1904794424.
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