Writer Stephen Poliakoff has complained
"Antisemitism does recur through this piece and there is an important plot development that involves it and I wanted it to be subtle initially,
"There are very few Jews in British drama. Since the death of the great Jack Rosenthal [the playwright] we haven't had a lot of Jewish characters portrayed.
"It's not often remarked on, there are statistically not many Jewish people in this country in relation to the population but nevertheless it is striking how few Jewish characters there are in British drama and also they are often portrayed in orthodox settings whereas there is a whole other strand of Jewish immigrant wanting to assimilate and still proud of their culture and it's rarely dramatised in British stories.”
