Rita, Sue and Bob too.

I'm going to a screening of the film at the BFI on Monday ahead of its DVD/Blu-Ray release - George Costigan and Michelle Holmes will be there for a Q&A after - any word of who is in the play?

Is this a remastered DVD? As I've had it on DVD for years.

Wasn't a bad film. 30 years old I see. Wonder if this revival will appeal to anyone other than the currently middle-aged who saw it the first time around on stage or film.

I always remember the 2 girls in white court shoes walking along the cobbled street going clack clack clack

"Mam can I 'ave me cookery money."
"No you cannot. If your teacher wants you to mek f***in' buns tell 'ER to give you t'f***in' money!"

I went to the BFI screening of the film last night, and got to meet George Costigan, Michelle Holmes and Kulvinder Ghir afterwards (I now have a signed Blu-ray, but drew the line at asking them to sign the condom that was given away with it): the film takes elements from the original stage play along with elements from The Arbor, apparently Alan Clarke went out of his way to inject more humour into the film, according to the post screening Q&A the original play was a lot more political and not quite so light hearted. Did anyone on here see the original play? Is the new touring version likely to be that, or something more closely based on the film or people looking for a more 'fun' night out?

I was also at the BFI last night and saw the film for the first time and didn't like it much. There was a lot of talk about the film being "authentic" because of the screenwriter yet there was evidence that the film director lightened up the original film through the casting of comedians and the addition of some comic characters as somewhat of a Greek chorus.

The film and Q&A did prompt me to read more about the source material and playwright and she obviously had a very difficult life, and the emergence of these plays was very striking. I'd be interested to see the plays, but also the verbatim film "The Arbor" (not an adaptation of the play of the same name) which examines the life of the playwright and her family. I'd hope that the Royal Court schedules the original plays rather than any variant.

I've never seen Siobhan's name listed for any stage work certainly in recent years. She's probably just too busy with high profile TV work such as Happy Valley and she is apparently reprising her role in Benidorm next year too.

Michelle I've never really seen listed as doing much stage work either.

George is a theatre regular, he has been around in several high profile tours and is a regular at B'ham Rep having been in numeros plays there most recently What Shadows.

Three Winters, yes she was. But the play she was in before that was An Inspector Calls in Nottingham which would've been well over 10 years ago. She's not quite a frequent treader of boards.

Hopefully she'll do more theatre - I think she's great. George Costigan has appeared in Ireland quite a few times over the last while. He was in both Blue/Orange and The Seafarer at The Abbey and he came here with Calixto Bieito's Hamlet from the Birmingham Rep.