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On The Edge review: A triple bill of touching dramas, all with a welcome splash of optimism, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
Ray Davies of the Kinks was getting all maudlin about it, more than 40 years ago - 'They put up a bowling alley,' he sang in Come Dancing, 'on the site that used to be the local Palais.'
Nostalgia for Britain's lost Palais dancehalls supplied the bittersweet twist in the last of a triple bill of short dramas by new writers, part of the On The Edge series. Ray surrendered to the inevitable, the council found Dora a room in a nursing home up the street, and the couple spent their evenings jiving to Swinging Sixties hits. Letting Go starred newcomer Luna Mwezi as Faith, an adolescent girl in care, torn between her longing to live with her real mum and a sense of dutiful gratitude to her foster parents.
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