I_Luv_You_Jimmy_Spud

<i>I Luv You Jimmy Spud</i>

I Luv You Jimmy Spud

Play by Lee Hall

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.

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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

  1. [1]
    "Lee Hall - IMDb". imdb.com. September 22, 2011.
  2. [2]
    Konttinen, Sirkka-Liisa (2009). Byker Revisited. Northumbria Press. p. vi. ISBN 978-1904794424.


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