Your mom's leaving and suddenly everyone's performing grief like it's opening night.
An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.
Acting
Alan Badel's theatrical breakdowns are uncomfortably mesmerizing.
Direction
Hussein stages domestic spaces like pressure cookers.
Director
Waris Hussein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Waris Hussein directed this the same year he helmed the legendary lost 'Doctor Who' serial 'The Daleks' Master Plan.'
This 'Wednesday Play' slot was where BBC snuck devastating social realism into primetime—think of it as prestige TV's angry ancestor.
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