When The Full Monty film was released in 1997 there was a delicious irony that it did so a week after Tony Blair was elected UK Prime Minister with a landslide victory that saw his New Labour project end 18 years of Conservative rule.
When The Full Monty film was released in 1997 there was a delicious irony that it did so a week after Tony Blair was elected UK Prime Minister with a landslide victory that saw his New Labour project end 18 years of Conservative rule.
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Writer Simon Beaufoy on The Full Monty’s move from screen to stage. By Neil Cooper
Here, after all, was a commercial feature film about a group of former steel workers turned strippers in Sheffield who had been thrown on the scrapheap by Margaret Thatcher's destruction of their industry.
Fifteen years on, and with a Conservative/LibDem Coalition in Westminster, Simon Beaufoy's screenplay of The Full Monty has been adapted for the stage. As with the film, Beaufoy's first stage play has proved a feelgood hit even as it deals with dark subjects about masculinity and the by-products of losing one's livelihood during an era of mass unemployment.
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