Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (TV serial)
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| Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Creator(s) | Jeanette Winterson |
| Starring | Charlotte Coleman, Geraldine McEwan, Kenneth Cranham, Cathryn Bradshaw |
| Opening theme | Rachel Portman |
| Country of origin | UK |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 50mins |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC Two |
| Original run | 10 January 1990 – 24 January 1990 |
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit was a critically acclaimed 1990 BBC television drama mini-series, directed by Beeban Kidron. Jeanette Winterson wrote the screenplay, adapting her semi-autobiographical first novel of the same name (published 1985). The BBC produced and screened three episodes, running to a total of 2 hours and 45 minutes. Each episode was seen by more than six million viewers. The series was released on DVD in 2005.
Charlotte Coleman starred as Jess, a girl growing up in a Pentecostal evangelical household in Lancashire, England in the 1970s, who comes to understand that she is a lesbian. The allegorical fairytales that are woven into the novel do not appear on the screen. Miss Jewsbury's love-making with the underage Jess, which appears in the novel, was also excluded. Even with these cuts the series caused controversy when shown due the remaining lesbian sex scenes and its portrayal of the Elim Pentecostal faith.
The series won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Best Drama.
[edit] Further reading
- Hallam, J. & Marshment, M. "Framing Experience: Case Studies in the Reception of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit." Screen No. 36, 1995: pp. 1-15.
- Hinds, H. ([1992]1996) "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: reaching audiences other lesbian texts cannot reach." In: J. Corner & S. Harvey (eds) Television Times: A Reader. London: Arnold. pp. 98-110. ISBN 0-340-65233-0
