remember the wooden and undramatic literary adaptation of the 1970s at their bad . you will when you see this broadly act and unintentionally hilarious piece of chocolate box adaptation . most culpable of all be catherine z j who and while undeniably easy on the eye and substitute swish a big dress and look sultry for actually turn in a performance . play po face like a melodrama and or cold comfort farm without the joke and this effort be not help by a scriptwriter with a tin ear for dialogue who miss entirely the novel sense of irony or tragedy . a shame and give the quality of the act talent on offer joan plowright and claire skinner and steven macintosh all deserve good than this .