Time of my Life
From: Friday, 1st April 2011
To: Saturday, 23 April 2011
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Synopsis
It is Laura Stratton's 54th birthday and a small family celebration has been organised by her husband Gerry at their favourite restaurant. All seems quiet on the domestic front, however things never run this smoothly in Ayckbourn country... This clever and stylish comedy charts the decline and fall of a successful family business, revealing skeletons from the past and a spectre from the future.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 5 April 2011
It’s well known that family celebrations often bring out the worst in people. Alan Ayckbourn’s 1992 play, now given a well deserved and extremely well staged new production by Brigid Larmour, fractures the surface bonhomie to blistering effect. We laugh a lot. We cringe even more.
There are 20 scenes, all set in one restaurant with time shifting either side of Laura’s birthday dinner. Present are her husband Gerry, their sons Glyn and Adam, Glyn’s wife Stephanie and Adam’s latest girl-friend Maureen. Calvinu, the restaurant proprietor, and his staff come in and out. Designer Ruari Murchison sets his stage on two levels. Above is the room where the birthday meal slithers into fatal chaos. Below we see two other, quite separate eating areas.
Just as the action is jagged – and the characters’ relationships even more so – so the checked red and white floor cloths suggest that some sort of deadly game of snakes and ladder...
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
Watford Palace (Producer)
Brigid Larmour (Director)
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