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The Muscle Market

on BBC One London

by Alan Bleasdale
'Remember when we were kids - either never out of trouble or never out of the pictures.' Danny Duggan's rough-house business methods and life-style owe more to early influences than to the CBI. But with the bottom falling out of the building game and the Inland Revenue on the doorstep, playing at gangsters is only fun when you're on the winning side.
"A cracking contemporary comedy... acutely sensitive to the frustrations of the 1980s." (Time Out)
"Alan Bleasdale's sharply written play is, you feel, convincingly rooted in a gritty kind of truth... was very much a play of our cruel times." (Daily Mail)

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Bleasdale
Producer:
Michael Wearing
Director:
Alan Dossor
Danny Duggan:
Peter Postlethwaite
Bernard:
Terence Rigby
Maxie:
Philip Donaghy
Susan:
Alison Steadman
Pauleen:
Mitzi Mueller
John:
Paul Jesson
Miller:
Ken Sharrock
Abbott:
Paul Harman
'Costello':
Roger Phillips
'Costello the Second':
Ronald Forfar
Hutchinson:
Barry McCarthy
Auctioneer:
Bill Stewart
Arthur:
Bill Moores
Bernard's son:
Derek McLean
Bernard's son:
Adrian Mills
Heavy:
Mike Donohoe
Heavy:
Steve Faye
Heavy:
Brian Jacques
Heavy:
Jackie Hamilton
Heavy:
Mike Hayden
Heavy:
Johnny Mallen
Heavy:
Ken Rose

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