MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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A tender portrayal of real people
The memorable and moving play has now been filmed to great dramatic effect
HEARTBREAKING: Maureen Carr, Jonathan Watson, Suzanne Magowan and Ali Craig in Fibres last year
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Fibres (14+)
Directed by Jemima Levick
Citizens Theatre Glasgow
IT IS the outright identification with working women that makes Francis Poet’s outstanding play Fibres so effective.
In the film Maureen Carr reprises her part as the central character Beanie who has been poisoned with asbestos from washing her husband’s clothes.
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