Changing Rooms
From: Tuesday, 10th August 2010
To: Saturday, 14 August 2010
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Synopsis
Bernard, recently appointed as a high flying government official, is desperately trying to get some time alone with his mistress, Brigitte. Jacqueline, his wife, is desperately trying (in between crashing the car and buying antiques) to get some time alone with her lover Robert. Nana, their housekeeper, is desperately trying to get a quiet weekend in her employers’ apartment - without her employers! When each of them think they have managed to get rid of the others, they all set about fulfilling their heart’s desire - with predictably hilarious results. Set in the stylish world of 70’s Parisian society, this fast-moving farce will leave audiences breathlessly delighted!
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 10 August 2010
How very long ago the 1970s feel! Was life really as two-dimensional then (theatrical life, that is)? Marc Camolett’s farces filled London theatres for years at a time in their various English versions, notably Don’t Dress for Dinner and Boeing Boeing. Now a new adaptation by Jonathan Holloway and Anthony Wood takes to the stage in the guise of Changing Rooms.
It’s something of a coup for Frinton’s summer theatre and Holloway directs with obvious affection. The plot offers everything you’d expect from a French farce of the period – a well-to-do couple each with an extra-marital interest and an earthy housekeeper with her own agenda. We’re never allowed to forget that this isn’t the 21st century. One landline telephone, no mobiles or netbooks (of course), a salt-of-the-earth former nanny now the bonne à toute faire, Concorde still a matter for Government negotiations and somehow no-one actual...
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Marc Camolletti (Author)
Jonathan Holloway (Adaptation)
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