We Happy Few

Synopsis

After struggling with authority and themselves, a group of unlikely women form a theatre company, and embark on an amazing journey across the country. They find out just how much they are needed, and most of all they find what it means to be a woman halfway through the twentieth century.

Our Review:

5 July 2004

In Twentieth Century, Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur's 1932 Broadway comedy about theatre folk, a show producer on a train keeps getting plagued by passengers and staff offering him up the hopeless plays they've written, and which he wisely rejects. The same thing must happen to director Trevor Nunn wherever he goes, too. The trouble with We Happy Few - which he's now directing - is that it was offered to him by a first-time playwright he possibly couldn't refuse, his actress wife Imogen Stubbs.

While one wants to applaud producers Bill Kenwright and Thelma Holt for backing a large-scale new play in the West End - and giving it such lavish resources which, in addition to a 14-strong cast also includes a heavyweight creative team variously populated by choreographer and fight director, film producer and composer - the play itself is both over-extended and undernourished. (The payroll must be one of the biggest for a non-musical in the...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (131.111.8.103) - 25 July 2004:

Abolutely AWFUL! The air conditioning wasn't working, the play was far too long, the acting was poor, the story was non-existant. A great wet lettuce...

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