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Spoonface Steinberg: Directed by Betsan Morris Evans. With Linda Bassett, Ella Jones, Helen McCrory, Becky Simpson. An autistic girl comes to terms with the fact she's dying of Cancer.
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- Drama
- Betsan Morris Evans
- 1998-02
Spoonface Steinberg is a play by British playwright Lee Hall, first broadcast as a dramatic monologue on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 27 January 1997. Such was the popular acclaim that the BBC repeated it on Radio 4 the following Saturday afternoon.
Oct 6, 2020 · BBC Drama, Lee Hall, Autistic, Cancer. Spoonface Steinberg. Spoonface is seven years old, autistic and terminally ill with cancer. She's fascinated by opera and by the way her parents behave. With the help of their cleaner, Mrs Spud, she tries to come to terms with her extraordinary life.
Spoonface Steinberg made an extraordinary impact in 1997 as a BBC play for radio—a medium where most plays are broadcast and rapidly forgotten. Apocrypha has it that burly truck drivers pulled into lay-bys to weep on hearing this narration by the autistic child (age uncertain) dying of cancer.
Lucy Hollis gives Spoonface a disarming, open-eyed innocence and her sudden actions and distractions—kicking her doll off a stool, for instance, scattering a plastic alphabet—match well the pattern of the autism spectrum.
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Spoonface was different, even before the cancer. Now after her parents have split up and her mother has a drink problem, her hospital consultant introduces her to opera. She becomes fascinated with divas who have marvellous stage deaths and this helps her to approach her own death with dignity...
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