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The Arbor

Cast

Christine Bottomley, Manjinder Virk, Natalie Gavin, George Costigan View All


Crew

Clio Barnard (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 22nd, 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. Andrea Dunbar wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate in Bradford and was described as ‘a genius straight from the slums.’ When she died tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, Lorraine was just ten years old. The Arbor revisits the Buttershaw Estate where Dunbar grew up, thirty years on from her original play, telling the powerful true story...
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Reviewed by

Holden Pike
Andrea Dunbar was a playwright who came out of the low income projects, writing sometimes barely veiled autobiographical dramas about herself, her family, and daily life on the Brafferton Arbor estate, known ironically as The Arbor, the title of her first critically acclaimed play in 1980.
ScarletLion
The events of Dunbar's life and her daughters' lives are told through these interviews and on screen plays.


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