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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 is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
- Betsan Morris Evans
- BBC Film, BBC
Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
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.
Cast. Linda Bassett (Mrs. Spud) Ella Jones (Spoonface Steinberg) Helen McCrory (Mother) Becky Simpson (Spoonface Steinberg) Mark Strong (Father) Director. Betsan Morris Evans. Synopsis. An...
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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Mar 30, 1998 · Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.
