Summary: Cottrell Boyce's script mixes the original Jacobean language with modern asides and sets Middleton's story in the year 2011, in the aftermath of a natural disaster which has destroyed the southern half of Great Britain a dystopia in which society is collapsing and where vendettas and the crude exercise of power are the norm. In a post-apocalyptic Liverpool of the future, a wronged man returns from a self-imposed exile to bring down those responsible for his wife's murder. (wikipedia.org)

Genre: Drama

Country: UK

Directed By: Alex Cox

Written By: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Thomas Middleton

Starring: Eddie Izzard, Christopher Eccleston, Andrew Schofield, Kevin Knapman, Michael Ryan, Kristopher Lundon, Joe Cottrell Boyce, Jean Butler

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