Funny Peculiar

Synopsis

Trevor Tinsley is a small-town grocer with a devoted wife and new baby - but his desire to taste the forbidden fruit of free love leads him astray and into the welcoming arms of his neighbour's wife. Hilarious misadventures ensue, revealing a host of comic characters as Trevor's actions lead him into conflict with his strait-laced community and provokes his narrow minded wife into a surprising reaction of her own...!

Our Review:

23 February 2012

When it was first written in 1973, Mike Stott’s raucous Northern sex comedy was simply too outrageous to be staged in Britain. It had its premiere in Germany and it wasn’t until 1975 that the Liverpool Everyman was brave enough to risk staging a British production.

The fact that it gave the Everyman a major success, transferring to the West End and making stars out of its cast – who included Julie Walters, Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy – is probably more a testament to the social conditions than any substantive quality in the writing.

The decades have not been particularly kind to the play, and with director Bob Tomson deliberately choosing to set this new production in the mid-1970s, everything about it seems just a little bit dated. The structure, the set-up, even the acting all have an air of old-fashioned values about them that makes the piece ultimately feel out of its time and something of a curiosity.

The story itself – young, newly married corner shop owner Trevor ...

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Latest User Review

Jon - 24 February 2012:

Awful Awful,none of the cast can act especially Gemma Bissix. Very small audience, the ones that stayed at home were the wise ones! Highly embarrassing pile of cack!...

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