Our House

Synopsis

Join Ted and May as they pack up their home of 45 years and head off for a life in the sun. As they sift and sort through a lifetime of possessions each room, each object, transports them back to a different time. A wave of emotions wash over the couple as they pack up their past and embrace their future. Our House is a melting pot of memories...the highs and lows, the make ups and break ups; good neighbours, bad neighbours, pets dying, kids fighting, Christmas', birthdays, weddings and wakes...endless years of joy...? Our House bursts with a lively mix of humour and pathos, that will have you rolling in the aisles and choking back the tears. It is truly unique, a living history, which pushes the limits of performance, style and politics.

Our Review:

9 July 2001

Hull Truck proudly celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new John Godber production, which follows the personal problems surrounding a family through 45 years in their northern England household. Godber’s drama reflects the life of May, (Judith Barker) and Ted (Dicken Ashworth) as they unravel the complications they have with their son Jack (Steve Huison). Difficulties with the neighbours, work strikes, ill health and the jumbled emotions attached to moving on in life are all prevalent here too.

The play is performed over two separate stages, designed by Pip Leckenby, and both do full justice to the Hull Truck style. The first set finds us in Ted and May’s back garden. Here we are introduced to the various characters, via flashbacks from the 1950s to the present day, whilst May is preparing to move to the Costa del Calm after Ted’s death. The second staging takes us inside the house where, cleverly, we are shown corresponding events that have taken place during the ...

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