Prick Up Your Ears/Made In Britain/Meantime

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Pick Up Your Ears: Prick Up Your Ears is a celebration of outrageous playwright Joe Orton & his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell which concluded with their violent & premature deaths. Orton was one of the 1960s golden boys from working class Leicester lad to national celebrity from sexual innocent to grinning satyr from penniless student to icon of Swinging London. Made In Britain: From a fact-based screenplay by David Leland (Wish You Were Here) & directed by master film-maker Alan Clarke (Rita Sue & Bob Too). Trevor is a teenage skinhead. Caught smashing the windows of a Pakistani owned shop he is sent to an assessment centre by social worker Harry where it is discovered he is slightly articulate & intelligent. But when he escapes steals cars & goes berserk can Harry still save him? Meantime: Writer-director Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies Abigail's Party) assembled the cream of emerging British acting talent for Meantime- a typically sharp & quirky portrait of family relationships. Meantime centres on an East End family the Pollacks- Mavis Frank & their sons Mark & Colin- & their experience of unemployment poverty & life in early 1980's Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of Skinhead Coxy family tensions erupt into conflict.