Gimme Gimme Gimme
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Actor(s):
Kathy Burk, James Dreyfus, Rosalind Knight, Brian Bovell, Beth Goddard
Synopsis:
Classic British comedy from playwriter Jonathan Harvey, who brought us the gay love story, Beautiful Thing. Kathy Burke (who also has a hand in the scripts) plays Lynda La Hughes, who believes herself to be extremely attractive, stylish and irresistible, despite ocular evidence to the contrary. Her wardrobe seems to have been purloined from Vivienne Westwood's worst nightmares, even Elton John would find her glasses a tad too garish and she has flamboyant red curly hair. Her appearance is almost as noisy as she is. Lynda's flat mate is Tom Farrell, a gay (and ever so slightly queeny) out of work actor. He and Lynda share the same taste in men, so his homosexuality is a thorn in her side (as she can't believe that given the choice, a man would choose Tom over her). Their upstairs neighbour is a retired lady of the night, Beryl Merit, who views their shenanigans with an air of bemused detachment. It wasn't all surface vulgarity though: Lynda and Tom's credulous neighbours are a neat parody of over sincere, middle class liberals. With Burke's larger-than-life character and wardrobe, and Dreyfus providing his particular line of camp tomfoolery, Gimme Gimme Gimme had no intention of wooing those for whom more subtle comedy was preferable. It revelled in innuendo and was uninhibited about being itself and as such, is very much a "marmite" programme: those who love it love it, those who don't, really don't.
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