My Wonderful Day

Synopsis

Winnie lives in a world full of adults. She’s off school for the day and has an essay to write - "My Wonderful Day" What better time to write it than today? What better opportunity than quietly seated unnoticed in a corner, whilst mother busies herself around the house? What better source of material than the bizarre and increasingly frenetic comings and goings of adults in the weird household in which she finds herself? Sit with Winnie and observe her "Wonderful Day" and prepare to be appalled! Grownups, really, they’re such children...

Our Review:

10 February 2010

Alan Ayckbourn’s name has long become synonymous with light-hearted, bourgeois comedies and his seventy-third offering for the stage runs much along the same lines – only he has done much the same before and much better. Despite some genuinely hilarious lines and the best efforts of a talented team of comic actors, the play fails to hang together as a whole, a fault that lies with the script.

The premise is a simple one: we follow one day in the life of eight year-old Winnie. Too ill for school, she accompanies her heavily pregnant mother to her cleaning job in the Tate household and quietly observes the unfolding chaos. Of course this will be no ordinary day: Kevin Tate is playing away with employee, Tiffany, his wife is plotting vengeance and Winnie’s mother inevitably goes into labour, leading to general uproar and a series of comic albeit slightly predictable situations.

The major problem with this play is that there is just not enough plot to it so th...

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Ryan Cooke - 10 February 2010:

Alan at his best, a great production with plenty of laughs along the way. Really enjoyed it and definately should go and see...

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