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Bar Mitzvah Boy

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC One
  • 1976
  • 1 episode

Bittersweet Jewish family comedy written by Jack Rosenthal that explores the ramifications of a young boy's apprehensions over his bar mitzvah. Also features Jeremy Steyn, Maria Charles, Bernard Spear, Adrienne Posta, Jonathan Lynn and more.

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Press clippings

It's damn depressing plays for one thing. Barmitzvah Boy, the first of a new Play for the Day series, was so entertaining that we might stay awake this series. Please God. Maybe. As the Green family would say.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 15th September 1976

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