Kangaroo Court have updated Lawrence's novel to the mid-1980s, setting it against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike and attributing Clifford's injuries to the Falklands War. He is now a fervent Thatcherite and, initially, a fund-raiser for the Tory party. It does work, to an extent, helped in no small measure by the cast of six.
However the adapatation cries out for the services of an a good dramaturg. The whole thing is a series of short - sometimes very short - scenes, with characters coming and going in the half-light between them. Many of these scenes seem to be there just to make points rather than carry the story further or to remind us of something from the novel. This filmic style of presentation prevents the dramatic tension from building effectively and it is only thanks to the performances that we actually have any tension at all.