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Allen also wrote five plays (The Rank and File (1971), A Choice of Evils (1977), The Spongers (1978), United Kingdom (1981) and Willie's Last Stand (1982)) for the BBC's Play for Today drama series, and several episodes of the Granada series Crown Court (1975–76). Allen and Loach's most controversial project was Allen's stage play, Perdition.
This ruthless streak shows through when a plainly unforgiving Loach remembers the Royal Court Theatre pulling Perdition, Jim Allen’s bitterly controversial play about a secret Nazi-Zionist deal ...
Looking for Eric (2009) looked set to be one of Loach 's least controversial films, at least once audiences had got over the notion of him directing a supernatural buddy comedy featuring former Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona as himself. Yet while it performed predictably well in Manchester, it flopped in many other regional cities ...
Most of Ken Loach’s work for television has attracted at least some critical writing because of his towering reputation in the cinema. Even so, The Rank and File has generally been overlooked in favour of the first Loach/Allen Wednesday Play collaboration The Big Flame (1969), and both writer and director seem to have mixed feelings about the piece.
Perdition (play) Perdition is a 1987 stage play by Jim Allen. Its premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, in a production directed by Ken Loach, was abandoned because of protests, and criticism by two historians, over its controversial and tendentious claims. [ 1 ]
He then wrote three films, Hidden Agenda (1988) – about a murder of an American civil rights activist in Belfast, Raining Stones (1993) – a tragicomedy set in Middleton, Greater Manchester and Land and Freedom (1995) – about the Spanish Civil War- all directed by Ken Loach. Jim Allen's most controversial work was the play Perdition (1987 ...
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For almost 35 years Jim Allen was one of British drama's most persistently radical voices. His writing never wavered in its commitment to socialism, and he was a key collaborator of and influence on the likes of Tony Garnett, Ken Loach and Roland Joffé. More recently, actor Christopher Ecclestone has spoken admiringly of a man who "wrote ...
