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Boys from the Blackstuff review " powerful portrayals of working-class pride by Mark Fisher

Royal Court, LiverpoolJames Graham's funny and violent TV adaptation belies a sensitive study of male mental health, as right-wing economics hits a group of road layers' lives The emotional high point of Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff is the funeral of George Malone. The death of this retired Liverpool docker is powerful not only because he is the one uncomplicatedly good character in the 1982 series, a ma…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AM on September 22, 2023

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