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May 10, 2001 · Lee Hall's "Spoonface Steinberg" is "a little piece of beauty," to steal a phrase from the title character. The play is an hour-long monologue about Spoonface, a young autistic girl with...
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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- Betsan Morris Evans
- 1998-02
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.
Apr 10, 2012 · Spoonface makes sense of it all. I dreaded the prospect of Lee Hall's Spoonface Steinberg, a 70-minute monologue for a nine-year-old autistic girl, dying of cancer. Yet the play left me with an...
Nov 10, 2017 · A play about an 8-year old autistic girl dying from cancer sounds like a recipe for a melancholy night out, but Spoonface Steinberg is actually entirely the opposite: uplifting, clarifying and hopeful.
Jun 29, 2013 · 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.
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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.
