Bedroom Farce
From: Thursday, 19th April 2012
To: Saturday, 12 May 2012
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Synopsis
When Malcolm and Kate threw a house-warming they had no idea how hot it would get. But then with four couples, three bedrooms, two ex-lovers and one set of parents-in-law (not to mention self assembly furniture and pilchards on toast) it was never going to go that smoothly. First performed June 1975.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 24 April 2012
One great thing about Alan Ayckbourn’s wry comedies, from a theatre management point of view, is that they’re practically production-proof. Another is that they are immeasurably enhanced by intelligent staging and uninhibited performances. This is where a thrust-stage such as that of the New Wolsey comes into its own.
Foxton’s set of the three contrasted bedrooms in three different houses within a small geographical locality wraps the audience around the frenetic action (Peter Rowe is the director). We are wall-hangings, affected by what’s going on before and below us, but unable to take any of the characters and shake – even knock – some sense into them.
Chief candidate for such treatment is Trevor. His complete inability to care for anyone but himself and serene conviction that it is always he who leaves a girl – and that anyone with whom she sets up a relationship in future must automatically be a case of settling for ...
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
New Wolsey Theatre (Producer)
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