Who wrote the 1976 British television play Bar Mitzvah Boy?

Jack Rosenthal wrote the 1976 British television play Bar Mitzvah Boy.

The play focuses on Elliot Green, a Jewish boy preparing for his bar mitzvah in London. Rather than treating the ceremony as a simple religious milestone, Rosenthal uses the family’s preparations to explore generational tensions, social expectations, and the pressures placed on a young person.

Rosenthal was a major British television dramatist whose work often combined comedy with closely observed family and social situations. Bar Mitzvah Boy was first broadcast by the BBC and became one of his best-known television plays.

The title can cause confusion because “bar mitzvah boy” is also an ordinary descriptive phrase. In this question, it refers specifically to Rosenthal’s television play, not to a general term for a Jewish boy reaching religious majority.