Talent (play)

The script for Talent, published by Methuen in 1988.

Talent is a play written by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1978. It centres on two friends, one of whom is about to enter a talent contest in a run down nightclub. Commissioned for the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, it received much acclaim and transferred to a London run in 1979. That same year a television adaptation was broadcast. It was the first time Victoria Wood and Julie Walters appeared together on TV.[1]

A mixture of dialogue and music, one of its tunes inspired The Smiths song Rusholme Ruffians.[2] The script was published by Methuen in 1988, along with another play by Wood, Good Fun.[3]

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