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Uma Thurman to Be in Plays for BBC TV
22-Jun-2008
Written by: Marshall Burns
Uma Thurman is to star in plays made for television on the BBC network, also coproduced by HBO.
Uma Thurman is to star in two BBC plays, with Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine in David Hare’s My Zinc Bed, adapted for television; and with stars Rys Ifans and Tom Wilkinson, who play the father and son in Caryl Churchill’s A Number.
The films are both backed by the BBC and HBO and will be shown later this year. Jane Tranter, controller of BBC Fiction told the BBC, “The single play is an integral part for the overall BBC drama picture. We’re delighted that this year plays from David Hare and Caryl Churchill, two of the UK’s most prolific and significant playwrights, have found their home on BBC Two.”
The play, My Zinc Bed, is about a penniless, but gifted poet, Paul Peplow, who is a recovering alcoholic as well, and is sent to interview a wealthy Internet entrepreneur, Victor Quinn, reported the BBC. Paul finds himself employed by Victor and meets his wife, Elsa, who is also a recovering alcoholic.
A Number is about a father and son and their relationship, which becomes questionable when the son learns he is one of a number of clones.
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