Birds of a Feather
From: Monday, 6th May 2013
To: Saturday, 11 May 2013
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Synopsis
Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke and Lesley Joseph reprise their roles as the sisters and their sex-mad neighbour in this stage adaptation of the much loved classic comedy.
Our Review:
8 May 2013
It certainly doesn’t seem like 15 years since the popular TV series, which was appreciated more for the comedy than the idea of being ground breaking - three women in the lead. And all of them, deservedly, continuing highly successful careers.
This show is 10 years on, and typically, Sharon and Tracey are struggling to hold down jobs; even at home they look like in uniform. Dorien of course sails along majestically as owner of Cherish Retirement Home. Well, totters around in high heels, topped by unbelievably skimpy outfits plus a towering wig.
Set mainly in the elegant lounge of ‘Shalentrace’, the switch to the impressive interior of Cherish is entertainingly made via a film of the car journey between the two locations, the classic spinning News Headlines, and actual scene shifting, with two of the residents tremulously shuffling around.
Updated with apposite references to current culture and technology, all of this neatly fits in with plen...
Creative
Laurence Marks (Author)
Maurice Gran (Author)
Gary Lawson (Author)
John Phelps (Author)
The Comedy Theatre Company (in association with Quirky Media Stuff) (Company)
Simon James Green (Director)
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