An Awfully Big Adventure
by Beryl Bainbridgeliterary work· published 1989
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It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company. She quickly becomes obsessed with their dissolute director, but when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, a different drama unfolds. He and Stella are bound in a past neither dares interpret.
Adaptations (1)
An Awfully Big Adventure was adapted into a 1995 film.
An Awfully Big Adventure1995 · film · 112 min · dir. Mike Newell · IMDb ↗IMDb5.840%Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
