Life in Squares
| Life in squares | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Amanda Coe |
| Directed by | Simon Kaijser |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Rhonda Smith |
| Location(s) | Charleston Farmhouse |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | |
Life in squares is a British television mini-series that is set to broadcast on BBC Two in 2015. [1][2][3]
Plot
The three-part seriel centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.
Production
The series was commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Lucy Richer, and produced by Ecosse Films in association with Tiger Aspect Productions. The executive producers are Lucy Bedford, Amanda Coe, Douglas Rae and Lucy Richer.[4][5] Filming bagan in August 2014 in London and Charleston Farmhouse.[6][7] The series is set to broadcast later this year.[8]
Cast
- James Norton as Duncan Grant
- Lydia Leonard as Virginia Woolf
- Phoebe Fox as Vanessa Bell
- Sam Hoare as Clive Bell
- Ed Birch as Lytton Strachey
- Edmund Kingsley as John Maynard Keynes
- Al Weaver as Leonard Woolf
- Jack Davenport as David Garnett
- James Northcote as Adrian Stephen
- Lucy Boynton as Angelica Garnett
- Jerome Finch as Saxon Sydney-Turner
References
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/life-in-squares
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11442634/Bloomsbury-set-laid-bare-in-intimate-new-BBC-drama.html
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/life-in-squares-and-vita--virginia-new-dramas-bring-the-bloomsbury-group-to-a-new-generation-10089176.html
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/life-in-squares-cast
- ↑ http://www.ecossefilms.com/tv/lifeinsquares
- ↑ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a590988/bbc-two-announces-casting-for-new-bloomsbury-group-series-life-in-squares.html
- ↑ http://www.theargus.co.uk/magazine/celebratingsussex/11517134.Visit_BBC_drama_Life_in_Squares__main_location_in_Charleston/
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/life-in-squares-and-vita--virginia-new-dramas-bring-the-bloomsbury-group-to-a-new-generation-10089176.html