A true event - the LGSM did raise money for the Welsh miners at Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valley - written by Stephen Beresford, who before this had one credit as a playwright, The Last of the Haussmans. But of course the skill here (I'm going to cite My Week with Marilyn again here for the upteenth time) - like in My Week with Marilyn - is in finding the human story within - here it's the parallel story of confident, out gay and movement leader Mark Ashton (a charismatic Ben Schnetzer) with the shy new recruit 'Bromford' George MacKay.
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| Left to right: Dominic West, Faye Marsay's hair, Joshua Hill, Chris Overton, Ben Schnetzer, Joseph Gilgun, Andrew Scott, George MacKay, Freddie Fox, Jessie Cave and Karina Fernandez |
And in Wales: Paddy Considine, Jessica Gunning, Rhodri Meilir, Lisa Palfrey, Imelda Staunton, Liz White, Nia Gwynne, Bill Nighy, Jack Baggs, Johnny Gibbon, Kyle Rees (first gets into dancing).
So a great piece of ensemble casting. It's terrifically entertaining (though leaves us on a tear).
Photographed by Tat Radcliffe. Edited with great momentum and verve by Melanie Ann Oliver, for example in the scene where West dances outrageously.
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