I Caught Crabs in Walberswick

Synopsis

Set on a sweltering summer’s day on the eve of the final GCSE exam, - explores modern teenage life in rural England. Best mates Fitz and Wheeler are fishing for crabs on a bridge in sleepy Walberswick when they are ambushed by Dani, the fittest girl on the beach. Wheeler is a high-flying comprehensive kid destined for university; football-mad Fitz is struggling to cope with his dysfunctional father and his school studies; and posh-girl Dani feels misunderstood by her neurotic mum… What follows is a crazy 24 hours that changes the lives of the three sixteen-year-olds forever.

Our Review:

14 November 2008

Curious times at the Bush. After all the fuss over nearly losing the Arts Council grant, the place has subsided into virtual silence, with a series of technical problems, a makeshift programme and most recently a flood. One begins to wonder if they went badly over budget at some point...

Meanwhile, this slightly old-fashioned little local play from Eastern Angles touring set-up and the High Tide Festival in Suffolk (via this year’s Edinburgh fringe, where it won a “First”) is an unconvincing filler. In its picture of two local Walberswick lads going on a booze-fuelled spree to Lowestoft with a posh pneumatic temptress, it resembles a low rent version of Jules et Jim in the irritating style of John Burrows and John Harding’s “growing up” mini-epic, The Golden Pathway Annual.

Playwright Joel Horwood, who made a bit of a splash with his fringe musical Mikey the Pikey a few years back, is not without talent or promise. But the minute you have all-purpose narrato...

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Sarah Tucker - 24 November 2008:

Quite well acted but predictable, slow, dull.... I felt it was a disappointing production for The Bush. ...

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