The Permissive Society is a thirty minute teleplay devised by Mike Leigh. It was made for BBC Birmingham as part of their 'Second City Firsts' series of plays made specifically about characters from in that city. It's about an immature young man who brings his new girlfriend home for dinner along with his sister at their family home.
This is a very slight bit of work, with one setting and no real plot. The young man is somewhat annoying but by the end of the piece we have learned more about him that makes him more sympathetic. He and his sister both have relationship difficulties but of different kinds. It's a little too sparse to really say anything too much but I enjoyed it nevertheless. It does have a mid-70's Britain time-capsule feel to it which I liked and the characters were interesting enough.
This is a very slight bit of work, with one setting and no real plot. The young man is somewhat annoying but by the end of the piece we have learned more about him that makes him more sympathetic. He and his sister both have relationship difficulties but of different kinds. It's a little too sparse to really say anything too much but I enjoyed it nevertheless. It does have a mid-70's Britain time-capsule feel to it which I liked and the characters were interesting enough.