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The television play was originally broadcast on 14 September 1976. It was written by Jack Rosenthal , directed by Michael Tuchner and produced by Graeme MacDonald . Starring Jeremy Steyn, Kim Clifford , Mark Herman , Adrienne Posta , Maria Charles , Pamela Manson , Bernard Spear and Cyril Shaps , the play tells the story of a young Jewish boy, Eliott Green (Steyn), in a lower-middle class family living in suburban North East London of the 1970s, and the apprehensions the boy feels over his forthcoming Bar Mitzvah . Meanwhile, the family prepares for the celebration, preoccupied with their own preparations for the bar mitzvah.
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Bar Mitzvah Boy is a British television play , written by Jack Rosenthal and originally transmitted in the Play for Today anthology series on BBC1 . Broadcast on 14 September 1976, the 75-minute production was directed by Michael Tuchner and produced by Graeme MacDonald .
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first episode of the seventh season of the bbc anthology series play for today
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