April in Paris
From: Thursday, 4th March 2010
To: Saturday, 27 March 2010
Our Review: 
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for April in Paris tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
| Tweet |
|
Synopsis
Bet and Al lead a hum-drum, if not claustrophobic, life with the friction in their relationship similar to the banter that goes on between all partners, until Bet wins a short holiday for two in Paris. It's their first time abroad, and they find themselves dealing with everyday French situations in an all too recognisably English way. But the break has profound effects on the way they look at the world around them; their horizons have opened up immeasurably, and once they return home can they settle back so easily into the life they once led? Contains adult language.
Our Review:
9 March 2010
It’s far from unknown for actors to return to favourite parts over the years, sometimes straining credibility in terms of age: I can recall, for instance, Michael Redgrave returning to Hamlet in his 50s when several years older than Googie Withers who played his mother.
With John and Jane Godber, returning to April in Paris some 18 years after they last played the parts, it’s quite a different matter. The characters, too, have become older; some unobtrusive tweaking brings the action up to 2010 and the play and production are the better for it.
April in Paris relies on a device used in other John Godber plays: the sudden transformation of the lives of ordinary folks. But, whereas these can have an element of fantasy among the naturalism (in Up’n’Under The Cobblers would have walked all over the Wheatsheaf in real life!), in April in Paris everything is all too real, sometimes painfully so.
Al has worked as...
Creative
John Godber (Author)
Hull Truck Theatre (Company)
John Godber (Director)
Pip Leckenby (Design)
Information
|
