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Mike Bradwell

Born June 14, 1948 · Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Died April 7, 2025 · aged 76

Mike Bradwell (1948-2025) was a leading theatre director. He founded Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1971, was Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre from 1996 until 2007, and subsequently worked widely as a freelance director. His book on alternative theatre, The Reluctant Escapologist, won the Society for Theatre Research's Theatre Book Prize for 2010.

Known For

Bleak MomentsBleak Moments · 1971
Bleak Moments
★ 6.11971
MovieComedyDrama
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
Games Without FrontiersGames Without Frontiers · 1980
Games Without Frontiers
1980
MovieTV Movie
Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red light district. On the boat going home, Clive and Stewart admit to not having spot long in the museums - so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?
Hard FeelingsHard Feelings · 1984
Hard Feelings
★ 8.01984
MovieDramaTV Movie
Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified home. But when Jane's boyfriend introduces a discordant note of reality from the streets, Viv plots her retribution. And behind her double-locked doors there are some hard feelings to contend with.
Happy FeetHappy Feet · 1991
Happy Feet
1991
MovieComedyTV Movie
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
The Day War Broke OutThe Day War Broke Out · 1981
The Day War Broke Out
1981
Movie
Between performances in Seaton Carew, Albie and Carla sort out their wedding, the broken tannoy, Elsie Tanner's chiropodist and whether their friend Lita should go nude with the snakes.
Play for TodayPlay for Today · 1970
Play for Today
★ 6.61970
SeriesDrama
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
PlayhousePlayhouse · 1974
Playhouse
★ 7.01974
SeriesDrama
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Screen OneScreen One · 1989
Screen One
★ 7.21989
SeriesDrama
Anthology drama series.

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